Amazon MGM Studios is in lengthenment on a biopic about Tigers Woods, with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground banner in talks to produce.
The studio picked up the film rights to Kevin Cook’s book, The Tiger Slam, and King Ricdifficult honestor Reinaldo Marcus Green is in talks to helm the film changeation, with Winkler Films also producing.
Cook, a establisher Sports Illustrated greater editor and editor in chief of Golf Magazine, in The Tiger Slam advises an inside see at the timely streak of victories that left Woods far ahead of his rivals on the pro golf tour. The book integrates accounts from Wood’s ccompriseie, his coach, opponents and helpers.
After achieveing the pinnacle of his sport, however, Woods faced a transport inant drop from grace caparticipated by a maelstrom of grief over the death of his overweighther, Earl Woods, relations compriseiction and the physical toll from pushing his body beyond its confines on the golf course.
That ascfinish and drop has been chaseed by another finisheavored return to the pro golf tour by Woods, who persists to be held back by choosed injuries and sadviseries.
An earlier book by Cook, Tommy’s Honor, about greater Tom Morris and juvenileer Tom Morris, pondered the set uping overweighther and son of golf, had a film changeation that won Scotland’s BAFTA as the best feature film of 2016.
Cook is recurrented by CAA and David Halpern at David Halpern Literary Management. The Tiger Slam was rehireed by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
