Matthew McConaughey is set to star in Born to Run, an adaptation of Christopher McDougall's book. Matthew Michael Carnahan penned the screenplay about "how an award-winning journalist and often-injured runner headed for Mexico’s isolated, deadly Copper Canyons to find out how the blissful Tarahumara Indians honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. He tags along to discover their secrets and takes readers from Harvard science labs to sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing their bodies to the limit. This led to a climactic race in the Copper Canyons that pitted America’s best ultra-runners against the tribe." [Deadline]
One is fresh off an Oscar-nominated performance in Gone Girl, the other was Robocop. Clearly somebody had a better 2014 than the other. Rosamund Pike is set to team up with Joel Kinnaman for The Bends, about "a mysterious discovery at the bottom of the ocean that reopens old issues for a former combat Marine who is working to pay off his debt to the mob." Behind the camera for this one is Jean Luc Herbulot. [THR]
