Screenwriter Liz Maccie will adapt Bruce Schoenfeld's book The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton: How Two Outsiders--One Black, the Other Jewish--Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History into a film, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams and half-sister Isha Price are set to executive produce the project, which is from 1Community, Access Entertainment, and Four Daughters. Emily Blavatnik and Danny Cohen will produce for Access Entertainment; Scott Budnick and Ameet Shukla will produce for 1Community, with Saúl Delcompare overseeing the project. Caroline Currier oversees the film for Serena Williams's Nine Two Six Productions.