After working with Sony on its reboot of “Annie,” Will Gluck is in negotiations to produce and direct a movie about baseball pitcher R.A. Dickey for the studio’s TriStar label, TheWrap has learned.
Actors Ben McKenzie and Logan Marshall-Green, who played brothers on “The O.C.,” are producing under their A Thing Or Two Productions banner, while Gluck would produce for his company Olive Bridge Entertainment.
Buzz Bissinger wrote the script, which is based on Dickey’s memoir, “Wherever I Wind Up.”
Dickey has a unique story, having overcome being sexually abused as a young boy and going on to be drafted by the Texas Rangers. The team offered Dickey a huge signing bonus but took it away when they discovered that Dickey was missing an important ligament in his pitching elbow. He overcame that physical limitation and developed a killer knuckleball that made him a valuable pitcher in the major leagues.
Dickey won 20 games for the New York Mets in 2012, striking out 230 batters and winning the National League’s Cy Young Award.
Gluck is a homegrown Sony filmmaker, having directing the cheerleader movie “Fired Up!,” the Emma Stone comedy “Easy A” and the Justin Timberlake–Mila Kunis romantic comedy “Friends With Benefits” for the studio’s Screen Gems label before taking on the high-profile “Annie” job.
Gluck, who is developing several intriguing projects all over town as both a producer and director, is represented by UTA and attorney Robert Offer.