Darren Aronofsky Looking to Direct Channing Tatum in Evel Knievel Film
Darren Aronofsky is on the hunt for his next film project, and it looks like it could end up being the Evel Knievel biopic that Channing Tatum has been attached to for about three years. The news comes from Deadline, who says that the director is in early negotiations.
The Evel Knievel movie is based on a book called Life of Evel, which was written by Stuart Barker. Knievel was an American daredevil and entertainer. The guy was a badass who attempted over 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps between 1965 and 1980. Over the course of his career he broke 433 bones, which earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime." Knievel died of pulmonary disease in Clearwater, Florida in 2007. He was 69 years old, and was one of the greatest American icons of the 1970s., In 1999 he was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame.
Aronofsky is the director behind films such as Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Black Swan. The last movie he made was Noah. He's an incredible filmmaker, and I think this would be a perfect project for him to take on. I'd really like to see him make this movie, so hopefully everything works out.