Brazilians mine 'Gold' for feature
Bobsled team used to make 'Better' movie
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Miami-based producer Piedad Palacios has inked with Eric Maleson, founder and prexy of the Brazilian Ice Sports federation, to make "Better Than Gold," billed as a "hot love story in the cold" about Maleson's life.
Tom Musca ("Stand & Deliver," "Tortilla Soup") has been tapped to write the screenplay for the $10 million pic. Brazilian heartthrob Rodrigo Santoro ("Love Actually") is in talks to play Maleson, according to Palacios.
Lensing is slated to begin in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Boston and Salt Lake City.
Maleson came to the U.S. in the late 1980s to study English after a small win in the Brazilian lottery. He met and fell in love with Lisa Papandrea in Scituate, Mass., and together the pair found their second love -- bobsledding.
They set up the Brazilian Ice Sports Foundation and married during their team's first participation in the Winter Olympics at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.
Maleson and his team are the only South American bobsledders competing in Torino.
The Jamaican bobsled team's story was turned into the pic "Cool Runnings" in 1993.
