Paramount Pictures and studio-based Tollin/Robbins Pictures have teamed to bring to the big screen the story of Jayram Khadka, the first Nepalese athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics, reports the Hollywood Reporter.
The studio has picked up Khadka's life rights as well as those of his adoptive father, Richard Morley.
The project, "Above the Clouds," will center on the father-son relationship between the two.
Morley waged a vicious seven-year battle against the British judicial system to gain custody of Khadka to provide him with a better life after the boy's father died. While watching the 1992 Winter Olympics and amid an embattled adoption process, Khadka and Morley realized that there were no athletes representing Nepal. This year, Khadka went on to become the first Nepalese Olympian and competed as a cross-country skier in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
No writers are on board to adapt the project.