EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has acquired the sports activities pitch Play by Play from Chris McCoy, with Jake Gyllenhaal (Highway Home) attaching to star, Deadline has realized.
McCoy will script the movie, the plot of which is being saved below wraps. Gyllenhaal may even produce by way of his 9 Tales banner alongside Josh McLaughlin and Faith of Sports activities’ Tom Brady and Gotham Chopra.
Below a first-look movie deal at Amazon MGM, Gyllenhaal beforehand starred of their 2024 remake of Highway Home, directed by Doug Liman, which broke information with greater than 50 million viewers in its first two weekends on Prime Video, and has returned for a forthcoming sequel helmed by Ilya Naishuller, the place he’s additionally a producer. He’s additionally in enterprise with the streamer on Honeymoon with Harry, a forthcoming dramedy the place he’ll star reverse Kevin Costner, in addition to Code Black, a political thriller primarily based on a brief story by Harrison Question that’s at the moment in growth.
Coming off of Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his starring flip in Apple’s Presumed Harmless, a homicide thriller which is now certainly one of Apple’s most-watched dramas of all time, he’s again on board as government producer of the forthcoming second season. Tonight, you may catch him in Warner Bros.’ Frankenstein-inspired gothic crime flick The Bride!, directed by his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, which is simply opening in theaters. Different upcoming initiatives embody M. Night time Shyamalan’s supernatural romantic thriller Stay, which Warner Bros. releases on October 23, and the Netflix motion thriller Kill Change, additionally penned by Question. He’s repped by WME and Carlos Goodman.
McCoy has written for Marvel, Disney, Fox, DreamWorks, Paramount and Laika, and has printed two novels with Knopf. Most lately, he offered his spec Hit the Fuel to Paramount with Neal H. Moritz and Tania Landau producing. Thrice named to the the Black Listing, he’s repped by UTA, Gotham Group, and HJTH.
Identified for sports activities and popular culture docs similar to Prime Video’s In-built Birmingham: Brady & the Blues, Netflix’s Simone Biles Rising, and Hulu’s Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, Faith of Sports activities has lately labored on titles like Glitter & Gold: Ice Dancing, Rise of the 49ers, and 5-Star, amongst others.
