George C. Wolfe is set to direct Columbia Pictures and Paramount Pictures feature adaptation of the boxing-centered documentary
Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, says Variety.
The documentary focused on the welterweight boxing champ whose career became defined by the night he battered rival Benny "Kid" Paret into unconsciousness during a nationally televised bout. Paret, who had taunted Griffith by calling him a homosexual, died of his injuries.