Columbia Pictures and Paramount Pictures have tapped George C. Wolfe ("Lackawanna Blues") to direct the feature version of the boxing-centered doc "Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story" reports Variety.
Doc 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.
Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis is penning the script. Dan Klores, who directed the original docu, will serve as producer alongside Scott Rudin.
