The lifetime of legendary fighter Rickson Gracie is coming to the large display screen.
Per a report from Deadline, filmmaker Adam Rifkin together with Brad Wyman and Michael P.J. Gerstein’s FutureIII Leisure have acquired the rights to Gracie’s memoir, Breathe: A Life in Circulate.
The son of Brazilian jiu-jitsu co-creator Helio Gracie, Rickson adopted in his father’s footsteps as a world-class grappler who acquired his black belt when he was solely 18 years previous. Breathe: A Life in Circulate follows his journey from preventing on the streets throughout the Seventies to his remaining combat within the Tokyo Dome in 2000 and the bigger historical past of the Gracie family dynasty.
Not lengthy after his half-brother, Royce Gracie, launched himself to the world on the inaugural Final Preventing Championship occasion in 1993, Rickson Gracie gained a multi-man-Vale Tudo event in Japan in 1994. Rickson earned three victories in a single night time and repeated the feat in 1995 earlier than profitable the primary Pleasure Preventing Championship occasion in 1997 on the Tokyo Dome in entrance of fifty,000 followers.
“It has been a very long time coming for a film primarily based upon my life, however what’s most vital to me, past all the pieces else, is that anybody who watches it, will acquire some kind of constructive perspective or understanding of their lives,” Gracie instructed Deadline. “That’s my final hope and aim for this mission.”
Rickson Gracie Biopic can be a ‘Reality-Primarily based’ and ‘Gritty’
Gerstein, who has been a member of Gracie’s jujitsu affiliation for twenty-four years, has labored with the fight sports activities nice to develop a character-driven story that goes past his critically acclaimed memoir to ship a gritty fact-based drama that may pay tribute to the undefeated fighter.
“It has been a very long time coming for a film primarily based upon my life, however what’s most vital to me, past all the pieces else, is that anybody who watches it, will acquire some kind of constructive perspective or understanding of their lives,” Gerstein mentioned. “That’s my final hope and aim for this mission.”
He added, “I’m completely ecstatic to have the chance to assist inform the story of Rickson’s unbelievable journey and to honor his sacred legacy with a reality primarily based, gritty character portrait, that won’t pull any punches. A narrative like this comes round as soon as in a lifetime and it’s extraordinarily vital we get it proper and inform it in the simplest method doable” (h/t MMA Fighting).
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