Margo Robbie producing a Tonya Harding comedy (movie)

[slicekw]

https://variety.com/2016/film/news/...rding-biopic-i-tonya-distribution-1201940053/

The script is on "the black list," which is the list of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood. It's supposed to be enormously funny. It looks like Margo Robbie will produce and star in it.

This is a hell of a lot more interesting than the article on People, which was basically just an ad for a silly TV docushow that purports to have "new information" that is not really new.

Now, I'm wondering who they'll get to skate double.

 

[casken]

It's been a few months since I heard about this, and this is the first I head it was going to be a comedy. I was hoping for something very real and dark, but the story is so ridiculous it makes sense.

I'm kind of looking forward to it.

 

[all_empty]

Allison Janney has been cast as her mom

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/a...dings-eccentric-mother-in-i-tonya-1201943561/

 

[Jarrett]

Well I love Allison Janney so I'll watch it for sure if it gets made.

 

[alchemy void]

Allison Janey is awesome, perfect casting. Especially if this is in fact a dark comedy, she does that genre so well (Drop Dead Gorgeous, anyone?).

 

[Spun Silver]

https://variety.com/2016/film/news/...rding-biopic-i-tonya-distribution-1201940053/
Now, I'm wondering who they'll get to skate double.

It has to be Courtney Hicks!!

 

[Anita18]

Sebastian Stan has been cast as Jeff Gillooly, guaranteeing my sexual confusion while watching this. (Cause I mean, that mustache....)

 

[BaileyCatts]

Is this movie going to be a theater release? Netflix? Cable release? It seems like a very limited audience for a theater release, especially some almost 25 years later? Unless the purpose is to hit right during 2018 Olympics?

 

[Aussie Willy]

Allison Janey is awesome, perfect casting. Especially if this is in fact a dark comedy, she does that genre so well (Drop Dead Gorgeous, anyone?).

I liked her in Spy. She does deadpan bitch so well.

 

[Daena]

Funny.
Sebastian Stan already did gymnastics comedy, will do figure skating comedy, he just needs to star in tennis comedy to do my favourite sports hat-trick.

 

[BaileyCatts]

Funny.
Sebastian Stan already did gymnastics comedy, ........

What movie is this? Want to see.

 

[Anita18]

What movie is this? Want to see.

The Bronze, but it apparently isn't very good. You do, however, get a nice view of his butt. (And Melissa Rauch's boobs, cause we gotta be equal!)

 

[Anita18]

Funny.
Sebastian Stan already did gymnastics comedy, will do figure skating comedy, he just needs to star in tennis comedy to do my favourite sports hat-trick.

Crossing fingers! He has apparently expressed interest in doing more comedies, but people keep on casting him as tragic (usually gay) characters emotionally abused by father figures. My friend said that was because he just cries so pretty.

 

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

Allison Janey is awesome, perfect casting. Especially if this is in fact a dark comedy, she does that genre so well (Drop Dead Gorgeous, anyone?).

Loved that movie.

 

[oleada]

Allison Janey is awesome, perfect casting. Especially if this is in fact a dark comedy, she does that genre so well (Drop Dead Gorgeous, anyone?).

She's the most smartest!
Are we on Cops again?
I got some!

I love that movie

 

[Bellanca]

Good Lord! Is this movie necessary? How many time does this saga need to be exploited? This smacks of a colossal ... And a comedy to boot?! Sheesh!

 

[VGThuy]

Watch it get rave reviews.

 

[Tinami Amori]

Wasn't there some silly musical already?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7gXdgZsAXg
http://www.eonline.com/uk/news/5616...-musical-yes-there-is-a-tonya-harding-musical
http://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_...0721085953-560.Tanya-Harding-3-jmd-072114.jpg
http://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_...140721085956-560.Tanya-Harding-jmd-072114.jpg

 

[Aussie Willy]

Margot has been filmed practising her skating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7KgwM_nPzQ

Wonder how long she has been learning because she doesn't look too bad.

She was also photographed at a rink in Brisbane

https://www.facebook.com/Iceworld-Acacia-Ridge-104805532916758/?pnref=story

 

[casken]

Margot has been filmed practising her skating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7KgwM_nPzQ

Based on the pose, it looks like she's practicing the ending to Harding's 91 lp right at the beginning.

I *can't wait* for this.

 

[Rob]

TMZ had a funny spot on this last night, but they seemed to think it was drama, not comedy.
http://www.tmz.com/2017/01/04/margot-robbie-ice-skating-tonya-harding-movie/

 

[Winnipeg]

I suppose.........but isn't making fun of a very sad life a bit harsh?

 

[Allskate]

Wonder how long she has been learning because she doesn't look too bad.

I heard that she is a hockey player, so it makes it easier for her to learn how to figure skate.

 

[IceAlisa]

This should be fun.

 

[jenniferlyon]

I'm wondering how they'll put a fresh spin on it? Older skating fans such as myself have heard the Tonya-Nancy story over and over again for twenty-plus years. Are the younger fans really that interested in it? My niece enjoyed watching my tapes from 1994, but that's not the same as shelling out $$ to see a fictionalized version of the "scandal" onscreen. Sure, I'll probably go see it, but I'm weird.

 

[VGThuy]

Biopics of old subjects can do well if the marketing team knows what it's doing with a little bit of luck in hitting the right time and the right audience. Plus, so many people don't even know this story as surprising as it is to many of us die hard fans.

 

[Daena]

I heard that she is a hockey player, so it makes it easier for her to learn how to figure skate.

Well. She is, but her ice skating is not so good...
Just a second, I will google her quote.
Here.

"I always wanted to play ice hockey back in Australia, I’m not sure why, but we didn’t have any ice where I lived. It was very hot, a coastal town. So I played field hockey, but then when I moved to America I was finally able to join a team once I wasn’t contracted to a show. ... I play on a team but I’m definitely the worst on the team. I’m not so good at the ice skating part. The hockey is good, but the ice skating I need to work on."

 

[honey]

Anyone know who was helping her? Looked like Renee Roca?

 

[Winnipeg]

Wasn't there already a movie (t.v.) on this topic? Hasn't it been beaten to death already?

 

[IceAlisa]

Wasn't there already a movie (t.v.) on this topic? Hasn't it been beaten to death already?

Here's an idea. When it comes out, don't watch it.

I think for an actor Margot Robbie's skating ain't bad.