"Captain America: Civil War" actor Sebastian Stan has joined "Suicide Squad" actress Margot Robbie in Tonya Harding biopic entitled "I, Tonya." "The Finest Hours" director Craig Gillespie is being helmed on it.
Robbie will play the titular character Tonya Harding in "I, Tonya." According to Variety, Stan will play as the estranged husband of Harding, Jeff Gillooly.
"I, Tonya" centers on infamous figure skater Harding and the sporting scandal that rocked the ice skating world at the 1994 United States Figure Skating Championships. Stan helped to plot about the attack on Harding's rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
In the plot of "I, Tonya," Gillooly and Harding's bodyguard Shawn Eckhardt ("Kingdom" actor Paul Walter Hauser) hired Shane Stant to break the leg of Kerrigan, so she could not compete in the upcoming 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Both Kerrigan and Harding made the Olympic team and made it to the Olympics, but the mustachioed Gillooly testified against Harding after serving time in prison for the attack. As a result, Harding's career was finished and later became a minor celebrity replete with a sex tape, a wrestling and boxing career, and multiple marriages, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
Robbie will also produce "I, Tonya" along with Tom Ackerley through their Lucky Chap Production Company and Bryan Unkeless through his Clubhouse Pictures. Len Blavatnik and Aviv Giladi are on board to executive produce for Al Film. "Love the Coopers" writer Steven Rogers wrote the script.
Besides "I, Tonya" biopic, Stan is reprising his role as the Winter Soldier in Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War" and soon in "Avengers: Infinity War." He is starring in the gothic thriller "We Have Always Lived in the Castle." He also has the Steven Soderbergh heist movie "Logan Lucky" coming out on Oct. 13.
"I, Tonya" is set to be released in 2018. Miramax recently landed the rights to distribute the film.
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