![]() ![]() ![]() Following Kandahar, he's expected to reunite with Gerard Butleron a sequel to his disaster hit Greenland. Until the day comes when the rights work out and Waugh is called back to make Evel though, he'll keep making crowd-pleasing action fare. I would still love to figure out how to do that one day." I know Sony has a lot of rights, still, within the Knievel library of IPs, they’re trying to figure it out. ![]() My version would have been Walk the Line, it would have shown you everything about Johnny Cash, and in this moment, it would have shown you everything about the man, Evel Knievel. I think that a lot of people were trying to do the glorified version of Evel Knievel, I wanted to show the real one. "There was another competing project at the same time. Invoking James Mangold's Oscar-winning Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line which looked into the life of the Man in Black, Waugh explained what his plans were for the project and how the complicated rights to Knievel's story ultimately prevented him from making the film: Although he was a larger-than-life figure and a worthy subject of a biopic, Waugh was more interested in telling the story of the man under the helmet. He completed over 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps in his career, constantly escalating the grandeur of his performances and enduring quite a lot of bodily harm with each failed jump. Knievel, born Robert Craig Knievel, was renowned throughout the 60s and 70s for his death-defying motorcycle stunts. ![]()
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