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 Stream.
The son of Brazilian jiu-jitsu co-creator Helio Gracie, Rickson adopted in his father’s footsteps as a world-class grappler who obtained his black belt when he was solely 18 years outdated. Breathe: A Life in Stream follows his journey from preventing on the streets through the Seventies to his last battle within the Tokyo Dome in 2000 and the bigger historical past of the Gracie household dynasty.
Not lengthy after his half-brother, Royce Gracie, launched himself to the world on the inaugural Final Combating Championship occasion in 1993, Rickson Gracie received a multi-man-Vale Tudo match in Japan in 1994. Rickson earned three victories in a single evening and repeated the feat in 1995 earlier than profitable the primary Satisfaction Combating 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 form of optimistic perspective or understanding of their lives,” Gracie advised Deadline. “That’s my final hope and aim for this challenge.”
Rickson Gracie Biopic shall be a ‘Truth-Based mostly’ 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 form of optimistic perspective or understanding of their lives,” Gerstein mentioned. “That’s my final hope and aim for this challenge.”
He added, “I’m completely ecstatic to have the chance to assist inform the story of Rickson’s unimaginable journey and to honor his sacred legacy with a truth 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 potential” (h/t MMA Combating).
