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CHEER
the BRAVE
Shuler will play the role
of West Georgia athletic director Ed Murphy in this upcoming independent
feature written by Shuler's brother Sam.
The film will recount a real-life drama of how a West
Georgia cheerleading squad went from tragedy to success. Emmy
award-winning director Randy Ser will direct, and Shuler and his father Sam P Hensley are associate producers.
As of April 2008, Cheer
the Brave is still in the pipeline, but no news yet as to when
filming will begin.
Read more :
Hensley
to Star in Cheer the Brave
In Cheer the Brave, Hensley will be
teaming as a producer with his brother, Sam Hensley, Jr., who is also
writing the screenplay, and Carrollton resident Richard Mix. As West
Georgia Athletic Director Ed Murphy, Hensley will be playing the
pivotal role of the man who convinced Sherry Cooney to take over the
West Georgia cheerleading squad after the coach and two cheerleaders
were killed in a van accident in the summer of 1997.
After occasionally butting heads
over the direction the squad should go, Murphy and Cooney developed a
mutual respect and appreciation. Not long after, the squad, including
many of the cheerleaders seriously injured in the wreck, qualified for
national competition for the first time. In 2001, West Georgia won the
nationals and is the three-time defending champions.
Cheerleading
tragedy inspires movie 
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