JGL Is The "Man On Wire" For Zemeckis

Joseph Gordon Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises, Don Jon) is tipped to star in the biopic "To Reach the Clouds" says Deadline

The film chronicles the life of French high-wire walker Philippe Petit, whose stunts were chronicled in 2008's acclaimed documentary "Man on Wire".

Based on Petit’s own memior, the story centers around Petit's feat of walking across a wire between New York City's World Trade Center in 1974 - a stunt he spent six years planning and preparing for. Because he'd executed his stunt without official permission, he was arrested as soon as he stepped off the wire. All charges against him were ultimately dropped. In his time, Petit also performed high wire walks between the towers of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, and the north pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

 Director Robert Zemeckis wants to call action after seeing  Alfonso Cuaron's Oscar-nominated "Gravity".

Tom Rothman will produce the film. 

It's unknown if the project will be Zemeckis' next film.