{"id":183884,"date":"2025-09-26T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183884\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:08:08","slug":"tiger-slam-movie-sets-airs-alex-convery-as-screenwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183884\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tiger Slam&#8217; Movie Sets &#8216;Air&#8217;s Alex Convery As Screenwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: After landing film rights earlier this year to the Kevin Cook book <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-tiger-slam\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tiger-slam\" data-tag=\"the-tiger-slam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Tiger Slam<\/a>, chronicling the rise of golfer Tiger Woods, and onboarding King Richard\u2018s Reinaldo Marcus Green to direct, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/amazon-mgm-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amazon-mgm-studios\" data-tag=\"amazon-mgm-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon MGM Studios<\/a> has found a writer for the adaptation in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/alex-convery\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alex-convery\" data-tag=\"alex-convery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Convery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNo stranger either to Amazon or to remarkable true stories from the world of athletics, Convery comes to the project following his work on Air, the Black List-nominated spec on Nike\u2019s bid to sign a young Michael Jordan, which Ben Affleck directed for the studio to critical acclaim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPublished in December 2024, The Tiger Slam delivers a gripping, inside-the-ropes account of an astonishing streak of victories that left Woods\u2019 rivals scrambling to keep up. The book specifically hones in on a historic run from 2000-2001, when Woods captured four consecutive major championships, beginning with the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. As the book recounts, Woods went on to victory at the Open Championship at St. Andrews before besting Bob May at the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla and conquering the 2001 Masters at Augusta National.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the book, readers hear from many of golf\u2019s biggest names \u2014 Tiger\u2019s caddie, his coach, his opponents, his idols, and others, all offering fresh insight into the electrifying highs of his victories and the obstacles on and off the course that threatened his relentless pursuit of perfection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWinkler Films and Higher Ground are producing the feature take.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA buzzy emerging writer from the Chicago area, Convery solidified a career as a screenwriter with the spec that went on to become Air, a film starring Matt Damon, Affleck, Viola Davis and more that grossed over $90 million in theaters before making its way to Prime Video and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Musical or Comedy Motion Picture. Currently, the young scribe is developing a limited series based on the Shohei Ohtani interpreter gambling scandal for Starz and Lionsgate. Also previously adapting the Mitch Albom novel Fab Five as a film for Skydance with Justin Lin attached to direct, he\u2019s represented by Untitled, UTA, and Yorn Levine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After landing film rights earlier this year to the Kevin Cook book The Tiger Slam, chronicling the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[108365,12779,427,99,108366],"class_list":["post-183884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-alex-convery","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-the-tiger-slam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}