Steve Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) will pen the script based on Don Van Natta Jr's ESPN article “The Match Maker: Bobby Riggs, the Mafia and the Battle of the Sexes. Ferrell will play the chauvinist Riggs, who came out of retirement to challenge the significantly younger King to a match, boasting that men players were far superior to women. The film will offer up a comedic look at the events surrounding the match. It was a national sensation with more than 50 million people watching it on TV. King won, but there's been speculation for years that Riggs threw the match in order to pay off some gambling debts.
Right now there's no director attached but if the plan is to have Conrad take the helm it will have to wait until his James Belushi biopic wraps up. [THR]
