Miles Teller has landed the lead role in the upcoming biopic ‘Bartali,’ which is centered on the Italian cycling champion and WWII hero Gino Bartali.
Gino Bartali was a renowned Italian athlete and the country’s most famous cyclist before World War II. He had won both the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France. During the war, he used his fame to carry messages for the Italian Resistance and helped protect Jews who the Nazis were persecuting. In 2010, it was revealed that he had hidden a Jewish family in his cellar, thus saving their lives. Bartali passed away in 2020 and had won the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France again after the war.
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The movie comes from directing duo E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who won an Oscar for their documentary ‘Free Solo.’ They will direct from a script by Karen Tenkhoff (The Motorcycle Diaries), who produces alongside Vasarhelyi and Chin’s Little Monster Films.
Teller’s upcoming projects include ‘The Gorge’ alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Sigourney Weaver, Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic ‘Michael,’ the romantic comedy ‘Eternity’ and the animated feature ‘The Ark and the Aardvark.’
