Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, The Finest Hours) is set to direct Margot Robbie in a biopic of Tonya Harding, which is being referred to as I, Tonya.
Variety reports that the film will focus on Harding, ‘one of the world’s top figure skaters who became the first woman to complete the triple axel move in major competitions, eventually leading her to victory in the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Harding’s stay at the top would not last long, however, as jealously led her to conspire to have her main competition, Nancy Kerrigan, injured prior to the 1994 Winter Olympics.’
Steven Rogers is writing the screenplay for the film.
Margot Robbie will next be seen in The Legend Of Tarzan and then Warner Bros. and DC’s Suicide Squad in August. She has also just joined the cast of Goodbye Christopher Robin playing the wife of A.A. Milne.
No word on when I, Tonya will head into production, but we’ll assume that Robbie will tackle the A.A. Milne biopic first.
More as we get it.
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