Over three films, Derek Cianfrance has made films about dudes. Okay, that's perhaps being a bit reductive, but from "Brother Tied" to "Blue Valentine" to this year's "The Place Beyond The Pines," they've featured men in various states of crisis. Now he's going to apply that approach to the most bro-tacular of industries—sports—for a project that has a tremendous amount of promise. The Wrap reports that Cianfrance is now set to direct an adaptation of the best-selling tome, "ESPN: Those Guys Have All The Fun." Assembled by authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales, the book was a sensation when it was released a couple of years ago, rounding up pretty much every key figure involved in the sports network, totalling over 500 interviews, to tell the rather colorful true story of how it started and became a behemoth. Here's theAmazon synopsis: It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern television history, spanning eight channels in the Unites States and around the world. But the inside story of its rise has never been fully told-until now.
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