
EXCLUSIVE: James Wolk is becoming a member of the solid of MGM’s adaptation of The Boys within the Boat. He joins an ensemble that comes with Callum Turner, Joel Edgerton, Jack Mulhern, Sam Strike, Luke Slattery, Courtney Henggeler, Thomas Elms, Tom Varey, Bruce Herbelin-Earle, Wil Coban and Hadley Robinson.
MGM, Spyglass and Smokehouse are partnering at the manufacturing, with George Clooney directing and Mark L. Smith writing the script with Chris Weitz writing a prior draft.
In line with No. 1 New York Occasions bestselling creator Daniel James Brown’s 2013 ebook The Boys within the Boat: 9 American citizens and their Epic Quest for Gold on the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the pic will inform the triumphant underdog tale of the College of Washington males’s rowing crew, who surprised the arena by way of successful gold on the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Wolk will play Trainer Bolles. Clooney and his Smoke Area Photos spouse Grant Heslov are generating the venture with Spyglass government generating.
Wolk maximum not too long ago used to be noticed within the NBC sequence Odd Joe (which wasn’t picked up by way of NBC on Friday), HBO’s Emmy-winning Watchmen and Kevin Williamson’s mental mystery Inform Me a Tale. Wolk is represented by way of ICM Companions and Greenlight Control