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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Foster (The Messenger), Leslie Bibb (The White Lotus), and KJ Apa (Riverdale) are group to prima in Gable, a movie telling nan bonzer existent communicative of Olympic golden medalist wrestler Dan Gable, who will beryllium played by Peaky Blinders and Animal Kingdom‘s Finn Cole.
Gable chronicles nan athlete’s journey, arsenic a working-class kid from Waterloo, Iowa who overcame an unthinkable family calamity to go 1 of nan astir ascendant athletes successful nan history of combat sports, compiling a 181-1 grounds passim precocious schoolhouse and college, and yet facing disconnected against nan powerful Soviets astatine nan tallness of nan Cold War.
Jon Greenhalgh, nan News & Documentary Emmy nominee down Netflix’s wrestling doc Team Foxcatcher, will nonstop from a book written pinch Michael Wallach (The Bay).
Shaun Redick and Yvette Yates Redick — whose credits see nan Oscar winning BlacKkKlansman and Get Out and Netflix’s vampire action comedy Day Shift — are group to nutrient via their Impossible Dream Entertainment. They reteam pinch Foster aft partnering pinch him and Woody Harrelson connected nan Oscar-nominated 2009 film The Messenger, chronicling nan lives of a brace of U.S. Army casualty notification officers.
Considered 1 of nan top wrestlers of each time, Gable won 2 NCAA titles astatine Iowa State University and took golden astatine nan 1972 Munich Olympics, without surrendering a azygous constituent crossed six matches.
“Dan is legendary for his relentless training,” Greenhalgh told us, “but this is simply a movie astir what lies beneath that iron-clad exterior.”
Following his profession successful nan ring, Gable achieved akin occurrence during his 21-year tally arsenic caput wrestling coach astatine nan University of Iowa, pinch a 355-21-5 grounds and 15 NCAA title wins. Inducted into some nan U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame and Wrestling Hall of Fame, he received nan Presidential Medal of Freedom successful 2020.
“In Gable, we person a world people stunt coordinator, Steve Brown, who was besides an All-American wrestler,” said Impossible Dream’s Shaun Redick. “He’s moving pinch our director, and NCAA champion wrestler, Zack Esposito, to bring nan assemblage into nan grueling, action-packed moments successful a measurement that’s ne'er been done before.”
Producer Yvette Yates Redick shared that what’s resonated most, personally, astir Gable’s story, “especially arsenic a mother, was nan weight this family carried. Beneath Dan’s achievements is simply a profoundly quality communicative astir resilience, connection, and uncovering intent done each other.”
Gable will beryllium executive produced by erstwhile Chairman of Capital Guardian Trust, Andy Barth, and Graham Manley, pinch producers Nate Adams and David Gould rounding retired nan team. Production originates this summertime pinch income being handled by Impossible Dream Entertainment. Steven Beer and Robert Maslonka from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith LLP are handling accumulation ineligible for nan project.
Foster is repped by Range Media and Eric Suddleson astatine TS Law Group; Bibb by UTA and LBI Entertainment; Cole by UTA; and Apa by UTA, Luber Roklin, Mandy Jacobson astatine Red Eleven, and Karl Austen and Jeff Hynick astatine Jackoway Austen.
