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Eric Bana is set to co-direct, write and star in a feature film based on Mike ‘The Bike’ Hailwood, regarded to be one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time.
Robert Connolly (“The Bank”), who Bana collaborated on “The Dry” with, will co-direct the film.
Former big-screen Hulk Bana will play Hailwood. The script reportedly fixes on the racer returning to the Isle of Man race in 1978 after an 11-year hiatus.
“We are absolutely thrilled that Eric Bana and Robert Connolly have taken Mike’s story to adapt into a feature film about his historic ‘comeback’ race win,” Hailwood’s widow Pauline Hailwood and their son David Hailwood said Tuesday in a statement. “We are delighted that Mike will be depicted by Eric Bana, an actor with an immense passion and knowledge of motorsports, Mike’s career, and a rider himself.”
Hailwood died in 1981 at the age of 40.
Bana made his directorial debut on doc “The Beast” a few years back.
