Daniel Radcliffe Collaborating With "Woman In Black" Director James Watkins On Sebastian Coe Biopic

  • 01 November 2013

At this point it’s safe to say that Daniel Radcliffe’s career has taken off, even after the former child star is no longer playing a certain bespectacled young wizard. Radcliffe has been announced to star in a brand new film. According to Screen Daily, Radcliffe will be portraying Sebastian Coe in Gold, a film directed by James Watkins, according to The Telegraph, Watkins and Radcliffe previously collaborated on 2012’s The Woman in Black. The screenplay will be penned by Will Davies and Simon Beaufoy, the latter of whom also worked on 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire, for which he won an Oscar.

Image caption Radcliffe will star in the new project as former Olympic legend and current political activist Sebastion Coe.