Julia Roberts Attached To Star in Remake of BATKID BEGINS Documentary

According to a press release I just received, Julia Roberts "is attached to the remake rights" of the documentary Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around The World, which is having its premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival tomorrow. The doc tells the story of Miles Scott, a young boy with leukemia who took the internet by storm in 2013 when the Make-A-Wish Foundation allowed him to save San Francisco from the dastardly plans of The Riddler. (Drew Struzan recently came out of retirement to work on the poster.)

Roberts is attached to star (presumably as Miles' mother), and she'll produce the film as well. Dana Nachman, the director of the Batkid Begins documentary, will executive produce the remake, and she had this to say:

"It's thrilling to me that Ms. Roberts and her team watched our film and were so moved by it that they want to dedicate their time and creative capital to make sure the widest audience possible will know and love Miles’ story and the spirit of this intimate special event that went global, as much as we do."

I'm not quite sure how I feel about this. On one hand, it seems a little exploitative to take this kid's story and try to turn it into a Hollywood film because the documentary already exists. It's a feel-good story, sure, but something about putting it through the studio system makes me cringe a little bit. On the other hand, as the doc director says, it might be cool to spread Miles' story to as large an audience as possible...but I think I'm going to stick with the fact that turning this into a narrative feature feels a little icky. What do you guys think?