Miss Misty is going Hollywood. New Line Cinema is creating a biopic of Misty Copeland’s life entitled, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina. The film is based off of Misty’s bestselling memoir of the same name to be adapted by Remember the Titans screenwriter, Gregory Allen Howard. The news comes just days after the dancer unveiled a new Barbie doll on Good Morning America.
Misty first made history by becoming the first female African-American principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre, and has been on fire ever since. Not only does she have a new Barbie doll and a bestselling memoir, but she also has an inspiring Under Armour campaign and a well-received documentary about her life, currently on Netflix.
This new film will focus on the dancer’s teenage years as she began training in ballet at age 13 while living with her mother and siblings in a welfare motel.”We were pretty much homeless and were living in a motel, trying to scrape up enough money to go to the corner store to get a Cup O’ Noodles soup to eat,” Copeland said in an ABC News interview in 2014. “It was probably the worst time in my childhood when ballet found me.”
New Line first optioned the inspirational story back in 2014, but now the project is moving forward. Howard is also writing a Harriet Tubman biopic, so we are definitely in store for some epic storytelling in the near future. No news yet as to who will be cast to play the lead.
Way to slay, Misty!
