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The studio received allegations about certain aspects of the true story of a famed girls soccer team's 1984 trip to China.

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00:00Skydance has scrapped their Matthew McConaughey soccer film, Dallas Sting.

00:04The studio pulled the plug after the project was only six weeks away from beginning production

00:08and was almost fully cast. The film is set to be directed by the Falcon and the Winter

00:13Soldiers, Kari Skoglund. The feature project set in 1984 was to tell the true story of a

00:18Dallas girls soccer team that traveled to China and against all odds defeated some of the best

00:23women's teams in the world. McConaughey was to play coach Bill Kinder who led the team to

00:27victories over Australia, Japan and China and finally Italy in the championship game.

00:33Sources say Skydance and the producers received disturbing allegations surrounding aspects of

00:37the true story on which the drama was based. That investigation led Skydance and the producers

00:42to pull the plug according to sources. Booksmart breakout Caitlin Dever was cast as the coach's

00:48daughter and an extensive audition process was underway to find actual soccer players for the

00:53supporting roles. A source close to the decision noted Skydance and the producers were

00:57disappointed by the development as they felt the story of the 1984 team and its young women

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