Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winning Traffic scribe Stephen Gaghan will write and direct Barbarian Days for Amazon Studios, based on the bestselling memoir by William Finnegan Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.
The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016.Gaghan will produce alongside Ted Hope, who will produce under his multi-picture deal with the studio.
Finnegan will also be executive producer.Barbarian Days tells the story of Finnegan’s lifelong love affair with surfing. He describes it as an obsession, a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.
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