Georges St. Pierre Biopic In The Works
MMA star Georges St. Pierre is now the center of a new biopic in development. Quebec director Thomas Soto (“Six Degrees,” “Still I Rise”) will direct the project.
The biopic will trace St-Pierre’s journey from Saint-Isidore, Quebec, to Octagon history, becoming a two-division champion at the UFC. The filmmakers say they want to strip away the myth of “GSP the global icon” to “reveal Georges, the man.”
St. Pierre is a welterweight and middleweight champion and retiree with a 26-2 record. He’s also appeared in a handful of film and TV roles over the years like Netflix series “The Cage,” Captain America: The Winter Soldier and its spin-off “Falcon And The Winter Soldier,” and Dimitri Logothetis’s currently-revamped Kickboxer trilogy with the third entry in pre-production.
“We have been considering telling my story for a moment now, and when we found this team it was clear to us that we wanted this to be told in a new creative way,” St-Pierre said in a statement.
“I want to tell the story of Georges behind GSP in a way that feels intimate, honest and deeply human,” Soto said in a statememnt. “To me, bringing that story to the world is both a privilege and a responsibility.”
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