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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 growth on the streaming service, which adapts the true and galvanizing story of Group Hoyt.
We first turned conscious of this challenge just a few 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 challenge as administrators. The duo, frequent collaborators behind the digicam in addition to having profitable careers in entrance of the digicam (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 Approach, Approach Again and extra just lately on 2020’s Downhill.
Grant Thompson, finest recognized for his 2015 film McFarland, USA, and producing The Hating Recreation, is behind the script.
Tom Brady is among the many producers on the challenge working beneath 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 tasks for Hulu and Showtime, masking 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 Bird, beneath his banner, The Walsh Firm. He beforehand labored with Faxon and Rash on that 2013 Oscar-winning film along with having credit on movies like Loss of life on the Nile and Napoleon. Gotham Chopra and Ryan Stowell are additionally producing beneath the Faith of Sports activities banner. Russell Hoyt will co-produce in collaboration with the Hoyt household property.
What is going to Group Hoyt be about?
Group Hoyt was the outstanding 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 just a few dozen instances for the Boston Marathon along with 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 exhibiting that “life goes on regardless of your incapacity.”
Rick was born with cerebral palsy after issues at delivery left him unable to regulate his muscle tissue. Regardless of medical doctors’ bleak prognoses, his dad and mom handled him like another youngster, 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 School’s EagleEyes Undertaking, serving to to develop techniques that give individuals 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 battle for incapacity rights in colleges—chronicling a unprecedented household’s battle for inclusion, love, and the facility 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 just lately held the Group Hoyt Memorial Race, which occurred on Could twenty fourth, 2025, honoring the legacy of Dick and Rick.
Extra studying will be discovered on the Wikipedia page for the duo and on the official Team Hoyte website.
Group 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 preserve you posted on Group Hoyt as quickly as we’ve got extra data.