Tiffany Haddish To Star As Olympic Star Florence Griffith Joyner In Biopic

Grammy-winning actress and comic Tiffany Haddish will star in her first biopic as the enduring monitor star and Olympic Gold-winning athlete Florence Griffith Joyner (“Flo-Jo”). 

Deadline studies that Haddish will star as Flo-Jo within the upcoming game1 characteristic that explores the highly effective and premature loss of life of the Olympian. Haddish may even function a producer and is teaming up with game1 to work on a docuseries and podcast associated to the characteristic. 

Flo-Jo was an elite monitor and discipline athlete within the Eighties and was named the quickest girl on the earth after setting dash information within the 100m and 200m races on the 1988 Summer season Olympics. After retiring from sports activities a yr after her record-breaking wins, Flo-Jo died at 38 after struggling an epileptic seizure. 

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“I’m wanting ahead to telling Flo-Jo’s story the way in which it must be advised,” mentioned Haddish. “My purpose with this movie is ensuring that youthful generations know my ‘she-ro’ Flo-Jo, the quickest girl on the earth to at the present time, existed.”

Al Joyner, Flo-Jo’s widower and former coach, will function a producer and inventive guide for the biopic.

“I’m so elated to crew up with game1 and Tiffany Haddish on this undertaking,” mentioned Joyner. “Working with Tiffany has been an important pleasure – she is extremely devoted, centered, and dedicated to portraying the spirit of Florence precisely, whose legacy of constructing a distinction on the earth will dwell on for generations to return. I hope that this movie touches all who see it and conjures up individuals to BE the change the world so desperately wants proper now!”

It’s unclear when the biopic will premiere as the start phases of the characteristic are simply underway.