“Cinderella” star Lily James is attached to play Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle — the first woman to swim across the English Channel — in “Young Woman and the Sea,” a drama that Jerry Bruckheimer will produce for Paramount, TheWrap has learned.
Jeff Nathanson (“Catch Me If You Can”) is adapting the 2009 book by Glenn Stout, which chronicles Ederle’s daring journey in 1926. Nathanson, who will executive produce the film, previously worked with Bruckheimer on “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.”
Ederle was a competitive swimmer who won a gold medal at the 1924 Olympic Games.