Well, 73-year-old screenwriter David Seidler is currently at the top of the world now, especially after he won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for THE KING'S SPEECH. (A little side of trivia: Seidler is the oldest Oscar winner ever to win such category)
And now, he is roped to pen another WWII-era inspirational story. He will team with Italian writer Luca Manzi to write GAMES OF 1940 for producers Kennedy/Marshall Company and RT Features.
Based on the true story, the WWII drama centers on a group of multinational POWs in a Nazi prison camp who decide to compete against each other in their own version of the Olympics after the 1940 games were abruptly canceled due to the ongoing war. They risked their lives to stage the games under the noses of the guards.
Hmm, that is definitely an interesting story to be told here...