Antoine Fuqua Hurdles Jesse Owens Biopic

Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day," "Olympus Has Fallen") is attached to direct a currently untitled biopic about American track and field legend Jesse Owens says Variety

The film will be based on ESPN host Jeremy Schaap's book "Triumph," with David Seidler ("The King's Speech") writing the adapted script.

Set aganst the backdrop of Berlin's 1936 Summer Olympics, it chronicles how the son of an Alabama sharecropper won a record four gold medals.Adolf Hitler had insisted Jews and Blacks not be allowed to participate, but relented when threatened with a boycott.

Gil Netter, Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun will produce the film

Fuqua is currently in post-production on "The Equalizer" due out late next year.