Sequim may not be the first place you think of when it comes to a big movie premiere, but that's exactly what a group of high school students is lobbying for after hearing that George Clooney is making a movie about a hometown hero, Joe Rantz. Clooney is directing a movie based on the book "The Boys in the Boat," which is the true story of the University of Washington crew team and the eight rowers that fought to win gold at the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin. Rantz is the main character in the story. Known as Hitler's Olympics just years before the Second World War, the team narrowly beat Italy and Germany. “They took the stroke rate higher than they’d ever had it before and at the end of the race they won it by six-tenths of a second,” said Joe Rantz's daughter, Judy Rantz-Willman. Read the full story here: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/sequim-joe-rantz-the-boys-in-the-boat-george-clooney-film-premiere/281-d5989868-868d-4998-83bc-6bb394c5cc23