Michael Winterbottom In Talks To Make Russ And Roger Go Beyond

Michael Winterbottom In Talks To Make ‘Russ And Roger Go Beyond’

By Russ Fischer/April 21, 2015 4:00 pm EST

THR reports that STX Entertainment, “the new financing and distributing entity launched last year,” has joined the project to finance it, and perhaps to distribute. (Permut Presentations and Sobini Film have been developing.)

There’s still no one attached to play Ebert, though with Winterbottom on board that’s likely to change quickly.

Winter bottom has made a wide variety of films, and is no stranger to period pieces, or to stories drawn from popular history. That should help when it comes to all facets of the project, from convincing an actor to take on a role like Ebert, all the way down to overseeing the many details of recreating the time period.