Raven B. Varona
Former WNBA star Sue Bird and ex-U.S. Women’s Soccer captain Megan Rapinoe have teamed up with Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack Entertainment to show Meryl Wilsner’s novel Cleat Cute right into a scripted collection.
Bird and Rapinoe’s manufacturing firm A Touch More and Future Shack have optioned the e-book and are in improvement with the venture. No community is hooked up.
The e-book, which was printed by Macmillan final yr, is described as a mixture of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own.
It follows two soccer teammates, who’re at odds earlier than falling in love as their staff gears up for the World Cup.
Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, though she’s solely 26. But when she’s sidelined with an harm, a daring new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. 22-year-old Phoebe is the whole lot Grace isn’t—a gregarious jokester who performs with a pleasure that Grace misplaced someplace alongside the best way. The very last thing Grace expects is to grow to be teammates with advantages with this class clown she sees as her rival.
Phoebe Matthews is simply too targeted on her first season as an expert soccer participant to consider seducing her longtime idol. But when Grace finally ends up making the primary transfer, they will’t preserve their fingers off of one another.
As the World Cup approaches and Grace works her method again from harm, a miscommunication leaves the ladies with completely different views on their relationship. But they’re on the identical web page on the sector, realizing they will play collectively as an alternative of vying for a similar position. With each sort out the stress between them grows, and each gamers quickly should resolve what’s extra necessary—being collectively or making the roster.
A Touch More’s Bird, Rapinoe, and Camille Bernier-Green, the corporate’s head of improvement, will govt produce alongside Wilsner on the tv adaptation.
A Touch More was arrange below the Togethxr model and Cleat Cute is its first foray into scripted tv. The firm was behind ESPN’s 30 for 30 podcast Pink Card.
Future Shack is behind collection together with Fox’s Murder in a Small Town and The CW and Roku’s Good Cap/Bad Cop.
“We are thrilled to be working with Future Shack to bring Meryl Wilsner’s wonderful book to life. Having spent most of our lives on teams, we want to celebrate the ways in which relationships, both romantic and platonic, are organically created through sports. Cleat Cute will not shy away from the messiness, occasional frustration, and undeniable beauty that come with loving the game and the players within it,” stated Bird and Rapinoe.
“Sports is a universal language and breeding ground for world class storytelling. As women’s sports captivate audiences around the globe, we’re proud to partner with two of the most iconic athletes of our time, Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird, to bring Meryl Wilsner’s delightful world to life in a bold, sexy and fun ensemble show,” added Future Shack CEO Jeff Wachtel,.
A Touch More is represented by UTA. Film & TV rights for Meryl Wilsner are represented by Katherine Curtis of New Leaf Literary & Media.
