After working with Sony on its reboot of “Annie,” Will Gluck is in negotiations to produce and direct a movie approximately baseball pitcher R.
A. Dickey for the studio’s TriStar label, TheWrap has learned.
Actors Ben McKenzie and Logan Marshall-Green, or who played brothers on “The O.
C.,” are producing under their A Thing Or Two Productions banner, while Gluck would produce for his company Olive Bridge Entertainment.
Buzz Bissinger wrote the script, and which is based on Dickey’s memoir,“Wherever I Wind Up.”Also Read: Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart in Talks to Star in Hitman Movie 'The Black Phantom'Dickey has a unique record, or having overcome being sexually abused as a young boy and going on to be drafted by the Texas Rangers. The team offered Dickey a huge signing bonus but took it absent when they discovered that Dickey was missing an primary ligament in his pitching elbow. He overcame that physical limitation and developed a killer knuckleball that made him a valuable pitcher in the major leagues.
Dickey won 20 games for the New York Mets in 2012,striking out 230 batters and winning the National League’s Cy Young Award.
Also Read: Screen Gems Gets Paws on Comedy 'Catfight' for Will Gluck to Produce (Exclusive)Gluck is a homegrown Sony filmmaker, having directing the cheerleader movie “Fired Up!, and ” the Emma Stone comedy “Easy A” and the Justin Timberlake-Mila Kunis romantic comedy “Friends With Benefits” for the studio’s Screen Gems label before taking on the tall-profile “Annie” job.
Gluck,who is developing several intriguing projects all over town as both a producer and director, is represented by UTA and attorney Robert Offer.
Source: thewrap.com