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Netflix is teaming up with an Oscar-winning directing duo for a brand new sports activities drama characteristic movie at present in improvement on the streaming service, which adapts the true and galvanizing story of Team Hoyt.
We first grew to become conscious of this mission a couple of months in the past, when Netflix registered a film screenplay based mostly on the true story, produced by Faith of Sports activities. Now, Deadline scooped that Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have boarded the mission as administrators. The duo, frequent collaborators behind the digital camera in addition to having profitable careers in entrance of the digital camera (primarily within the comedy style), have beforehand teamed up on the Oscar-winning The Descendants, which netted the award for finest screenplay, which they wrote with Alexander Payne. They’ve additionally labored collectively on the 2013 Sundance film The Method, Method Again and extra lately on 2020’s Downhill.
Grant Thompson, finest recognized for his 2015 film McFarland, USA, and producing The Hating Sport, is behind the script.
Tom Brady is among the many producers on the mission working underneath his banner, Faith of Sports activities. Netflix has beforehand collaborated with Brady’s Faith of Sports activities on the critically acclaimed Simone Biles sequence, “Rising.” The corporate has also worked on different unscripted initiatives for Hulu and Showtime, overlaying sports activities icons like Serena Williams and Kobe Bryant.
Kevin J. Walsh is producing the movie, having final labored with Netflix on the 2019 movie Earthquake Hen, underneath his banner, The Walsh Firm. He beforehand labored with Faxon and Rash on that 2013 Oscar-winning film as well as to having credit on movies like Demise on the Nile and Napoleon. Gotham Chopra and Ryan Stowell are additionally producing underneath the Faith of Sports activities banner. Russell Hoyt will co-produce in collaboration with the Hoyt household property.
What is going to Team Hoyt be about?
Team Hoyt was the exceptional father-son group of Dick Hoyt and Rick Hoyt from Holland, Massachusetts, who collectively accomplished over 1,100 endurance occasions, together with 72 marathons together with a couple of dozen occasions for the Boston Marathon as well as to half a dozen Ironman triathlons. Dick towed, peddled or pushed Rick by means of every occasion whether or not that’s in buggy, bike or boat. Their extraordinary perseverance earned them induction into the Ironman Corridor of Fame and ESPN’s Jimmy V Award, and impressed thousands and thousands by displaying that “life goes on regardless of your incapacity.”
Rick was born with cerebral palsy after problems at delivery left him unable to management his muscle groups. Regardless of docs’ bleak prognoses, his dad and mom handled him like every other baby, till at 11 he was fitted with a communication machine that exposed his intelligence and allowed him to attend public college. He went on to earn a level in particular training from Boston College and labored on assistive-technology analysis at Boston Faculty’s EagleEyes Undertaking, serving to to develop techniques that give folks with disabilities a voice.
The film’s official logline is as follows: “From marathons to Ironmans, the story follows Dick and Rick Hoyt, who defy the chances as a racing duo, whereas the household’s matriarch, Judy, wages her personal conflict for incapacity rights in colleges—chronicling a rare household’s combat for inclusion, love, and the ability of perception.”
Whereas Dick and Rick are not with us (they handed away in 2021 and 2023, respectively), their inspiration lives on by means of The Hoyt Basis, which nonetheless actively participates in marathons throughout the US. As well as, they lately held the Team Hoyt Memorial Race, which occurred on Could twenty fourth, 2025, honoring the legacy of Dick and Rick.
Further studying could be discovered on the Wikipedia page for the duo and on the official Team Hoyte website.
Team Hoyt win the Jimmy V Perseverance Award on the 2013 ESPY Awards present on the Nokia Theatre L.A. Dwell in Los Angeles on July 17, 2013. Image Credit score: UPI/Jim Ruymen
We’ll hold you posted on Team Hoyt as quickly as now we have extra info.
