‘The Other Side Of The Wind’ Co-Producer Dax Phelan Options Boxing Book ‘Journeymen’
Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Dax Phelan (Jasmine, The Other Side of the Wind) has acquired the rights to UK author Mark Turley’s boxing book Journeymen: The Other Side of the Boxing Business, a New Perspective on the Noble Art, and will be shopping the project during Toronto.The novel follows an alcoholic, drug-abusing, past-his-prime journeyman boxer, who, after being diagnosed with neurological damage, continues his career on the small-hall circuit at grave risk to himself, in the hope that he can reach the rare achievement of one hundred professional bouts.Phelan will direct and co-write the adaptation with Turley. The pic will be produced by Phelan and Eric M.