{"id":650728,"date":"2026-05-18T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/650728\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:37:08","slug":"dan-gable-movie-casts-ben-foster-finn-cole-leslie-bibb-kj-apa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/650728\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Gable Movie Casts Ben Foster, Finn Cole, Leslie Bibb, KJ Apa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Ben Foster<\/a> (The Messenger), Leslie Bibb<\/a> (The White Lotus), and KJ Apa<\/a> (Riverdale) are set to star in\u00a0Gable, a film telling the extraordinary true story of Olympic gold medalist wrestler Dan Gable<\/a>, who will be played by\u00a0Peaky Blinders\u00a0and\u00a0Animal Kingdom\u2018s Finn Cole<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tGable chronicles the athlete\u2019s journey, as a working-class kid from Waterloo, Iowa who overcame an unthinkable family tragedy to become one of the most dominant athletes in the history of combat sports, compiling a 181-1 record throughout high school and college, and ultimately facing off against the powerful Soviets at the height of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

\n\tJon Greenhalgh<\/a>, the News & Documentary Emmy nominee behind Netflix\u2019s wrestling doc\u00a0Team Foxcatcher, will direct from a script written with Michael Wallach (The Bay).<\/p>\n

\n\tShaun Redick and Yvette Yates Redick \u2014 whose credits include the Oscar winning\u00a0BlacKkKlansman\u00a0and\u00a0Get Out\u00a0and Netflix\u2019s vampire action comedy\u00a0Day Shift\u00a0\u2014 are set to produce via their Impossible Dream Entertainment<\/a>. They reteam with Foster after partnering with him and Woody Harrelson on the Oscar-nominated 2009 film\u00a0The Messenger, chronicling the lives of a pair of U.S. Army casualty notification officers.<\/p>\n

\n\tConsidered one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, Gable won two NCAA titles at Iowa State University and took gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics, without surrendering a single point across six matches.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDan is legendary for his relentless training,\u201d Greenhalgh told us, \u201cbut this is a film about what lies beneath that iron-clad exterior.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing his career in the ring, Gable achieved similar success during his 21-year run as head wrestling coach at the University of Iowa, with a 355-21-5 record and 15 NCAA championship wins. Inducted into both the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame and Wrestling Hall of Fame, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn\u00a0Gable, we have a world class stunt coordinator, Steve Brown, who was also an All-American wrestler,\u201d said Impossible Dream\u2019s Shaun Redick. \u201cHe\u2019s working with our director, and NCAA champion wrestler, Zack Esposito, to bring the audience into the grueling, action-packed moments in a way that\u2019s never been done before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tProducer Yvette Yates Redick shared that what\u2019s resonated most, personally, about Gable\u2019s story, \u201cespecially as a mother, was the weight this family carried. Beneath Dan\u2019s achievements is a deeply human story about resilience, connection, and finding purpose through each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGable\u00a0will be executive produced by former Chairman of Capital Guardian Trust, Andy Barth, and Graham Manley, with producers Nate Adams and David Gould rounding out the team. Production begins this summer with sales being handled by Impossible Dream Entertainment. Steven Beer and Robert Maslonka from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith LLP are handling production legal for the project.<\/p>\n

\n\tFoster is repped by Range Media and Eric Suddleson at TS Law Group; Bibb by UTA and LBI Entertainment; Cole by UTA; and Apa by UTA, Luber Roklin, Mandy Jacobson at Red Eleven, and Karl Austen and Jeff Hynick at Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Ben Foster (The Messenger), Leslie Bibb (The White Lotus), and KJ Apa (Riverdale) are set to star in\u00a0Gable,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[48595,236,280737,88,280738,280739,280740,45707,280741],"class_list":["post-650728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ben-foster","tag-celebrities","tag-dan-gable","tag-entertainment","tag-finn-cole","tag-impossible-dream-entertainment","tag-jon-greenhalgh","tag-kj-apa","tag-leslie-bibb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650728","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=650728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}