Chrissy Metz To Produce, Possibly Star In Inspirational Mountaineer Movie ‘Gorge’ In Works At Amazon
Exclusive: Amazon Studios has acquired rights to Kara Richardson Whitely’s memoir Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds, and is developing it as a movie with This Is Us star Chrissy Metz, who will produce and possibly star.
The producing team also includes PatMa Productions’ Denise Di Novi, Nina Tassler and Margaret French Isaac, along with Luber Roklin Entertainment’s Lena Roklin.
Gorge tells the story of Whitely, a woman determined to reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro who was able to ascend from the depths of self-doubt to the top of the world. She struggled with each step — with the grueling conditions on the steep mountainside, with the 300-pound weight of her own body, and with her food addiction that came from a lifetime of reckoning with feelings of failure and shame. Deep in her personal gorge, Kara realized the only way out was up.
This marks the first producer effort for Metz,...
The producing team also includes PatMa Productions’ Denise Di Novi, Nina Tassler and Margaret French Isaac, along with Luber Roklin Entertainment’s Lena Roklin.
Gorge tells the story of Whitely, a woman determined to reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro who was able to ascend from the depths of self-doubt to the top of the world. She struggled with each step — with the grueling conditions on the steep mountainside, with the 300-pound weight of her own body, and with her food addiction that came from a lifetime of reckoning with feelings of failure and shame. Deep in her personal gorge, Kara realized the only way out was up.
This marks the first producer effort for Metz,...
- 12/12/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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