Sydney Sweeney is getting within the ring.
The breakout from, nicely, principally all the things she’s performed recently (“Anybody however You,” “Euphoria,” and “The White Lotus,” to call just a few) is ready to play boxer Christy Martin in an upcoming biopic directed by David Michôd (“Animal Kingdom”). Insert your personal joke right here about being a knockout. The script for the untitled challenge was written by Mirrah Foulkes and Michôd.
Martin was probably the most profitable feminine boxer of the Nineteen Nineties. She signed with Don King and is the one feminine boxer to look on the duvet of Sports activities Illustrated. Martin turned welterweight champion — however that was in regards to the finish of the nice issues in her life. Christy was bodily abused by husband (and boxing coach, and supervisor) Jim Martin, who was ultimately convicted of tried second-degree homicide with a firearm and sentenced to 25 years in jail. Christy Martin’s life is documented in “Untold,” the superb collection of documentaries by Chaplain and Maclain Means. Her episode is subtitled “Cope with the Satan,” and is a part of Quantity 1.
The scripted biopic can be produced by Kerry Kohansky-Roberts for Nameless Content material, Michôd for Yoki, Inc., Justin Lothrop and Brent Stiefel for Votiv, Sweeney for Fifty-Fifty Movies, and Teddy Schwarzman for Black Bear, the corporate financing the movie. Govt producers embrace Michael Heimler, John Friedberg, Foulkes, Brad Zimmerman for Yoki, Inc., in addition to David Levine, Ryan Schwartz, and Nick Shumaker, who will government produce on behalf of Nameless Content material. Black Bear plans to convey the challenge to worldwide patrons on the Cannes Movie Market; UTA Unbiased Movie Group, AC Unbiased, Nameless Content material’s gross sales and finance division, and Black Bear will co-represent the U.S. rights.
Sweeney is represented by Paradigm, Stuart Brookman, and imPRint. Michôd is represented by UTA and Alan Wertheimer and Kim Jaime at Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Pattern & Klein. Foulkes is represented by UTA, Untitled Leisure, and Robert Wallerstein at Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman.
The one particular person busier in Hollywood than Glen Powell is his “Anybody however You” co-star. Sweeney has already starred in two movies in 2024, the forgettable “Immaculate” and “Madame Net,” which all of us (together with its stars) want we might overlook. Her “Echo Valley” and “Eden” are in post-production, supposedly there can be a “Euphoria” Season 3, and Sweeney mentioned she even wrote a script throughout COVID lockdown. There’s extra coming, in fact, however even the web is working out of room to cowl these two.