Matthew McConaughey Will Lead True-Life Tale BORN TO RUN
Matthew McConaughey has experienced a hell of a career resurgence over the past few years, and it looks like he's trying to keep the ball rolling. Deadline reports that he'll star in Born to Run, an adaptation of Christopher McDougall’s best-selling book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, And The Greatest Race The World Has Never Seen. Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z, The Kingdom) is writing the screenplay, but no director is attached yet.
The book tells the true story of a journalist/runner who visited Mexico's Copper Canyons to learn from the Tarahumara Indians, a tribe who trained themselves to run for hundreds of miles without injury or rest. The climax involves a big race between the tribe members and some of America's best runners.
This seems like a cool, small scale project for McConaughey, and it's clear that he's been making the right career choices lately, so I'm definitely interested in seeing what he does with this one. I wouldn't be surprised if he roped in a director he's worked with before - it seems like anyone from Richard Linklater to Brad Furman could put their stamp on this one, so we'll see who ends up sitting in the director's chair when this eventually gets rolling.