The team behind Seabiscuit, Universal, Spyglass and Kennedy-Marshall, have joined forces to option The Perfect Mile, a book proposal by author Neal Bascomb about the race among the world's three premiere runners to be first to complete the mile in under four minutes. Frank Marshall, an avid runner who is also a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee, will direct the film. Bruce McKenna will write the script.
"Mile" focuses on the efforts by Oxford medical student Roger Bannister, Australian miler John Landy and publicity-hungry American runner Wes Santee to reach a sports milestone as significant as the scaling of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary. The trio had wildly different methods and personalities. The winner completed the mile in 3:59:4 in 1954.
Houghton Mifflin will publish "The Perfect Mile" to coincide with the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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