EXCLUSIVE: Willie Pep biopic Pep, starring James Madio (Band of Brothers), Keir Gilchrist (Atypical) and Ron Livingston (Office Space), will go before cameras next month, in the famed boxer’s hometown of Hartford, CT.Robert Kolodny (Netflix’s Procession) is directing the film, from a script by Steve Liff, with Madio starring as the featherweight champion, inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.The sports drama picks up with Pep in 1965, at a time when the limelight has faded.
Living with his Italian immigrant parents, a wife half his age and a drug-addled son in a single-family home in Hartford, Pep is tired of obscurity and wants to be a ‘somebody’ again.
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