EXCLUSIVE: Nat Faxon & Jim Rash have been set by Netflix to direct Group Hoyt, based mostly on the true story of how Dick Hoyt turned himself right into a triathlete and marathoner so he may lug with him son Rick—a non-verbal quadriplegic whose energy and spirit helped provoke a motion.
Dick and Rick grew to become an iconic father-son racing group, with Dick pushing and pulling his son by means of greater than a thousand endurance occasions, together with 32 Boston Marathons and 6 Ironman Triathlons. Off the course, Judy Hoyt carried the baton for inclusive schooling, taking part in a pivotal position in drafting Chapter 766—the groundbreaking Massachusetts legislation that grew to become a mannequin for federal particular schooling laws.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 12: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash attend the “Downhill” New York premiere after occasion at Eataly on February 12, 2020 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Steven Ferdman/Getty Pictures)
The movie can be produced by Kevin Walsh’s The Walsh Firm, Gotham Chopra’s Faith of Sports activities, Ryan Stowell, and NFL icon Tom Brady, latter of whom hatched Faith of Sports activities with Chopra and one other gridiron nice, Michael Strahan. Russell Hoyt will co-produce in collaboration with the Hoyt household property, honoring Rick and Dick’s legacy within the racing and disabled folks’s neighborhood. Brady is totally on board, sparking to the inspirational energy of the fabric and the Hoyt story. Dick’s utterly Boston-flavored talking voice most likely additionally appealed to the New England Patriots legend QB.
If in case you have a beating coronary heart, you’d be laborious pressed to carry again the waterworks watching footage of the bond that developed between a non-athletic father and his son, a younger man robbed of mobility and the flexibility to talk when his umbilical wire strangled him within the womb. Dick acquired himself off the sofa, labored his means into form, and located that his son loved being a part of the race, the place they motivated each other.
The script was written by Grant Thompson (McFarland, USA).
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 04: Kevin J Walsh attends the “Echo Valley” New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Sq. 13 on June 04, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Theo Wargo/Getty Pictures)
Faxon and Rash most just lately directed the dramedy Downhill, starring Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. They received the Academy Award for Greatest Tailored Screenplay in 2012 for The Descendants, directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney and Shailene Woodley.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 25: Gotham Chopra attends the “Thank You Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story” Particular Screening at iPic Fulton Market on April 25, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Theo Wargo/Getty Pictures)
Walsh (The Instigators), is repped by WME and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett & Kole. Chopra and Brady’s Faith of Sports activities, which has finished acclaimed docuseries on Aaron Rodgers, Serena Williams, Simone Biles and Koby Bryant, is repped by WME, as is Brady together with Latham & Watkins. Stowell is Yorn, Levine. Faxon & Rash are repped by CAA, Untitled, and Goodman, Genow, and Thompson by Verve, Underground, and Sloane, Supply.
BOSTON, MA – APRIL 19: Dick Hoyt holds the palms of Rick Hoyt as they run alongside Beacon Road in the course of the Boston Marathon, April 19, 1982. (Picture by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe through Getty Pictures)