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Yay! Das Leben des größten Stuntmans aller Zeiten (nach Colt Seavers natürlich) wird verfilmt! Vom Hollywood Reporter:

Like many a kid in the 1970s, writer-director Ric Roman Waugh wanted to recreate the stunts of famous daredevil Evel Knievel. Exclusive Media Group is finally giving him his chance.

Waugh, who spent 20 years in the stuntman ranks before writing and directing the 2008 crime drama Felon, is negotiating to adapt for the screen Leigh Montville’s The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend, which Random House published in April. Given his family’s Hollywood background — his father Freddy Waugh (Bad Company) was one of the founders of Stunts Unlimited in the 1970s — Waugh has a vocational connection to the iconic Knievel and the bone-shattering fame he achieved in the ’60s and ’70s.

Waugh, who will also direct Evel, was a fan of Montville’s Ted Williams biography and brought the Knievel book to Exclusive, which optioned the rights for him in a competitive environment. Exclusive’s Nigel Sinclair and Guy East are producing the project, which will cover all of Knievel’s major stunts in the 1960s and 1970s (Snake River Canyon, Kings Island) while providing a look at the painful (in many ways) private life of the man.

Evel Knievel Biopic Revs Up With Director Ric Roman Waugh (via Filmstalker)

Und, grade bei der Bildrecherche gefunden: Das 1978er Evel Knievel-Biopic mit George Hamilton in der Hauptrolle ist komplett auf Youtube, Embedding disabled by Request, Fuckers.

George Hamilton produced and stars in this appealing bio-pic about real-life stunt daredevil Evel Knievel. Knievel’s famous motorcycle stunts and early life are remembered in flashback by the performer in the moments before a big jump. The cast includes familiar drive-in movie faces like Vic Tayback, Sue Lyon, Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith, and Dub Taylor, and much of it was filmed on location in Knievel’s hometown of Butte, Montana. Though Hamilton is quite good in the lead, most fans prefer the real thing — Knievel portraying himself in the later Viva Knievel! (1978).

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