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A New Chuck Yeager Film in the works?

Updated Nov. 18, 2004--According to various sources on the Internet, a movie based on legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager is in development at 20th Century Fox.

Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures is teaming with 20th Century Fox and Richard D. Zanuck's Zanuck Co. to produce the life story of Gen. Chuck Yeager.

The as-yet untitled movie is based on the autobiographical book "Yeager" that Yeager and writer Leo Janos co-authored in 1985, with the latest draft of the screenplay written by Ray Wright.


The story will follow the famous test pilot's exploits from his roots in West Virginia through his WWII dogfights and culminating in the first successful flight to break the sound barrier.

Read about "The Right Stuff", Warner Bros. 1983 movie.



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Working Title Unknown
Genre Biography/Drama
Studio 20th Century Fox
Production Company Phoenix Pictures/The Zanuck Company
Project Phase Script Stage
Actors Unknown
Who's Making It Ray Wright (Screenwriter); Richard Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck (Producers); Stephen Carbone (Executive Producer); based on the book Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos.
Premise Based on the life of legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier.
Release Date Unknown
Director John Moore (?)

Who is...
• Richard Zanuck?
• Mike Medavoy?
• Ray Wright? (info at bottom of page
• John Moore?
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