La storia di Ante Kostelic pronta a sbarcare a Hollywood con Russell Crowe ad interpretare il mitico maestro croato

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The story of Ante Kostelic ready to land in Hollywood with Russell Crowe to play the legendary Croatian master

Producer Jeffrey Greenstein has confirmed that a film project is still in its initial phase, but work is underway to tell the story of Janica and Ivica's father

Sunday 12 May 2019 3 minutes reading time

A film about Ante Kostelic? Certainly he could not pass even for the antechamber of the brain, to the Croatian ski instructor who turned 80 last August 11, that his life would have led him to see himself represented in Hollywood, perhaps already in the coming months. In the years in which the former champion of handball and professor of physical education grew his children Janica and Ivica around the European glaciers, with very few economic and logistic means available, making in some cases literally "hunger" , no one could have thought that the incredible story of Ante and his heirs then became all-round champions (Janica won 3 World Cups, 4 Olympic golds and 5 world championships, Ivica 1 Coppona, 1 gold medal and 4 silvers in five circles), would land on the big screen. It's not all done yet, but the Croatian and Slovenian media have received confirmation from producer Jeffrey Greenstein that Millennium Films (formerly producer of films like Hellboy, among many others) has started a project still at its early stages, but already solid and in collaboration with Croatian producer Branko Lustig, who won the Oscar with Schindler's List and Gladiator. And the leading actor who touched the whole world in the Colosseum arena, Russell Crowe, was shown to represent the character of Kostelic. "A film about me? I doubt that my life is interesting enough for the basis of a film - said the insane Ante - Today's productions are made with special effects, full of explosions and with the main heroes in the background. We'll see...".

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