After working together on I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings and The Fighter, Mark Wahlberg and David O Russell are to reteam for a fourth film: a biopic of an athlete who became a priest.
He suffered from this horrible muscular degenerative disease but was still ordained as a priest and passed away, but not before he was able to inspire thousands upon thousands of people.”
“David O Russell and I right now are working on developing a script on Father Stu,” said Wahlberg, “who was an amazing priest from Helena, Montana.”
Long, who died aged 50 in 2014 of muscular degenerative disease, was a promising prize-fighter who turned to acting after undergoing reconstructive surgery.