Miles Teller To Play Italian Cycling Champion and WWII Hero Gino Bartali in BARTALI From FREE SOLO Directors
Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick) is set to play star Italian cycling champion and WWII hero Gino Bartali in the upcoming biopic Bartali.
Bartali was “a renowned Italian athlete and Italy’s most famous cyclist before WWII, having won both the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France.
“During the war, he used his fame to carry messages to the Italian Resistance while also helping Jews being persecuted by the Nazis.
‘In 2010, it emerged that he had hidden a Jewish family in his cellar, saving their lives. Bartali passed away in 2020, having won the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France again after the war.”
The project comes from Free Solo directing duo E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who won an Oscar for their documentary and made their first scripted project with Nyad.
The two will direct from a script by Karen Tenkhoff (The Motorcycle Diaries), who produces alongside Vasarhelyi and Chin’s Little Monster Films.
Teller will next be seen in The Gorge alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Sigourney Weaver,. He also stars in Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael, the rom-com Eternity, and animated feature The Ark and the Aardvark.
Source: Variety