The Hunger Games’ Gary Ross will direct a new sports movie, Old Time Hockey, for Skydance Sports.
Per Deadline, Ross has been tapped to direct Old Time Hockey, an original sports film featuring a screenplay written by Kevin Jakubowski.
Set in Pennsylvania, Old Time Hockey will revolve around a longstanding rivalry amongst high school hockey players that began in the 1990s but then gets re-ignited in the modern-day.
What other movies has Gary Ross made?
Ross made his feature film directorial debut in 1998 with Pleasantville, which starred Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon. He went on to direct Seabiscuit with Maguire in 2003 before he then helmed the first move in the Hunger Games franchise in 2012.
Since then, Ross made Free State of Jones with Matthew McConaughey in 2015 and the Ocean’s 8 prequel movie with Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, and Anne Hathaway in 2018.
Jakubowski, meanwhile, is best known for writing the screenplay to 2021’s 8-Bit Christmas. He wrote 2008’s Assassination of a High School President, while he also created television programs like 2017’s Play by Play, which is currently streaming on The Roku Channel.
Skydance Sports is a division of Skydance Media that was created in October 2021. The studio’s first movie, Air, was picked up by Amazon Studios in April 2022. Released in the United States in April 2023, the film stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, and Chris Messina. The studio is now developing a movie about John Tuggle titled Mr. Irrelevant, which is being directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50, Warm Bodies) and written by Nick Santora. Mr. Irrelevant does not yet have a release date.
No casting announcements for Old Time Hockey have been made at this time. The movie does not yet have a release date from Skydance Sports.
