Disney saddles up ‘Secretariat’
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?Randall Wallace is saddling up at Disney to direct “Secretariat,” the Mike Rich-scripted film about the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse and its owner, Penny Chenery.
Last year, Disney acquired the rights to Chenery’s life story. The film is being produced by Mayhem Pictures partners Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray (Daily Variety, May 8, 2007).
Chenery was a mother and housewife who knew little about horses when she was pressed to take over her ailing father’s horse farm in Virginia. Though Secretariat came along and began to take shape as a potential champion, Chenery was pressured to sell the farm after her father died and she was hit with a multimillion-dollar inheritance tax.
- from Variety