Amy Schumer In Talks For Ringside Boxing Drama Based On Life Of Christy Martin
Glamour UK On the eve of her upcoming STX comedy, I Feel Pretty, actress and comedienne Amy Schumer is reportedly up to lead a new boxing drama for Voltage Pictures, inspired by the life of former world champion boxer Christy Martin. Anita Busch and Mike Fleming Jr. broke the news at Deadline on Monday with word that screenwriter Katherine Fugate (Valentine’s Day, Xena: Warrior Princess) pen the script for this, her directorial debut. The report cites the film’s central narrative focus on Martin (whose since changed back to her maiden name, Salters) as “a woman who never gives up and who keeps going despite every odd against her”; Highlights in the report detail Martin’s struggle with adversity entering into the world of the very sport in which she would not only find herself coined as “The Coalminer’s Daughter”, but a champion figurehead in breaking the glass ceiling for women in […]