New Line Developing Misty Copeland Biopic LIFE IN MOTION; REMEMBER THE TITANS Writer on Script

New Line pictures is currently at work on creating a biopic of Misty Copeland, the first African-American principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, according to Deadline. Titled LIFE IN MOTION: AN UNLIKELY BALLERINA, the project is based on Copeland's biography of the same name. REMEMBER THE TITAN's Gregory Allen Howard will pen the film's script.

Per the report, "The bestselling book, and the movie, will chronicle humble beginnings and effort to reach that pinnacle."

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Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in San Pedro, California, Copeland began her ballet studies at the age of 13 at the San Pedro City Ballet. At the age of fifteen she won first place in the Music Center Spotlight Awards. She then began her studies at the Lauridsen Ballet Center. Copeland has studied at the San Francisco Ballet School and American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive on full scholarship and was declared ABT's National Coca-Cola Scholar in 2000.

Copeland joined ABT's Studio Company in September 2000, then joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2001. She was appointed a Soloist in August 2007 and a Principal Dancer in August 2015. Her roles with the Company include Gamzatti, a Shade and the Lead D'Jampe in La Bayadère, a leading role in Birthday Offering, Milkmaid in The Bright Stream, the Fairy Autumn in Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, Blossom in James Kudelka's Cinderella, Swanilda and the Mazurka Lady inCoppélia, Gulnare and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Mercedes, Driad Queen, the lead gypsy and a flower girl in Don Quixote, Duo Concertant, the Masks in Christopher Wheeldon's VIII, the Firebird in Alexei Ratmansky's Firebird, Flower Girl in Gaîté Parisienne, Zulma and the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, the Waltz in Les Sylphides, Lescaut's Mistress in Manon, Clara the Princess, Columbine and one of The Nutcracker's Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, BIANCA in Othello, a Gypsy in Petrouchka, the Lead Polovtsian Girl in the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, the Saracen Dancer inRaymonda, Cowgirl in Rodeo, Juliet and a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, Princess Florine inThe Sleeping Beauty, Odette-Odile, the pas de trios, a cygnet and the Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, leading roles in Bach Partita, The Brahms-Haydn Variations and Monotones I and roles in Airs, Amazed in Burning Dreams, Baker's Dozen, Ballo della Regina, Birthday Offering, Black Tuesday, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Brief Fling, Company B, Désir, Gong, Hereafter, In the Upper Room,Overgrown Path, Pretty Good Year, Private Light, Raymonda Divertissements, Sechs Tänze, Sinatra Suite, Sinfonietta, Thirteen Diversions, Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison and workwithinwork. She made her Broadway debut in On the Town in August 2015.

Copeland created His Loss in AfterEffect, the Spanish Dance in Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, the Fairy Fleur de farine (Wheat flower) in Ratmansky's The Sleeping Beautyand leading roles in C. to C. (Close to Chuck), Dumbarton, Glow - Stop, One of Three andWith a Chance of Rain.

Copeland received the 2008 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts and was named National Youth of the Year Ambassador for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in 2013. In 2014, President Obama appointed Copeland to the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. She is the winner of a 2014 Dance Magazine Award. Copeland is the author of the best-selling memoir, Life in Motion and the children's book Firebird.

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