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Ben Foster, Merritt Wever & Katy O’Brian Join Sydney Sweeney In David Michôd’s Christy Martin Biopic As Filming Starts In North Carolina For Black Bear


Filming has begun on biopic about Christy Martin, who found fame as America’s most successful female boxer, while dealing with dark personal life

The untitled project is being produced by Kerry Kohansky-Roberts for Anonymous Content, Michôd for Yoki, Inc., Justin Lothrop and Brent Stiefel for Votiv, Sweeney for Fifty-Fifty Films and Teddy Schwarzman for Black Bear, which is also fully financing. Executive producers include Michael Heimler and John Friedberg for Black Bear, Foulkes, Brad Zimmerman for Yoki, Inc., David Levine, Ryan Schwartz and Nick Shumaker for Anonymous Content, and Harrison Huffman. Wever is represented by Innovative Artists, Viking Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.

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