Disney to remake QUANTUM HOOPS documentary with Ben Stiller's Red Hour

 

Disney is set to remake the documentary Quantum Hoops. Deadline reports that hte stuid has picked up the rights to the 2007 documentary that followed "the 2006 Caltech basketball team that had 21 seasons and 245 conference games without a single win, routinely getting walloped by 60 points. or more."

The film will be produced by Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld's Red Hour. It is being turned into a comedy based on the story of "a group of brainiacs and future world political and industrial titans who tried to overcome a lack of athletic skills by getting an exiled NCAA coach to lead their team to what seemed for two decades an impossible dream: one in the W column." Stan Chervin will pen the script. 

Check out the trailer for the original film below:

This sounds like a film that could be funny and would be another ensemble comedy perfect for Stiller. What are your thougths on this news?