Miles Teller to Star in New Drama ‘Winter Games’

Paramount is clearly hoping to take advantage of this sort of movie, and is getting back in business with one of its reliable performers.

Miles Teller, who appeared in the company’s mammoth movie hit ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and led its small-screen Paramount+ streaming hit ‘The Offer,’ is now aboard to produce and star in a new sports-themed movie called ‘Winter Games.’

The new film, per Deadline, comes courtesy of director Paul Downs Colaizzo, who co-wrote the script and will call the shots.

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What’s the story of ‘Winter Games’?

The movie is set in the high-stakes arena of the Winter Olympic Games, following a perpetually overlooked skier and a self-sabotaging hockey legend who collide at their breaking points. Their unexpected connection threatens her chance for a medal and his shot at a comeback as they navigate romance and redemption in the Olympic Village.

We don’t yet know who will star alongside Teller.

Colaizzo co-wrote the script with Pat Cunnane, who recently worked on the script for ‘Eternity,’ a new drama starring and produced by Teller (more on that below).

And it’s also a reunion for the actor and producers Tim and Trevor White, whose Star Thrower company helped shepherd ‘Eternity’ and will do the same for ‘Winter Games.’

What else is Miles Teller attached to?

Teller, whose past resume also includes the likes of ‘Whiplash,’ the 2011 version of ‘Footloose,’ ‘Spiderhead’ ‘Rabbit Hole,’ the less-than-loved 2015 take on ‘Fantastic Four’ and, most recently, Apple TV+ horror action thriller ‘The Gorge,’ is a busy, in-demand actor.

As mentioned above, he has ‘Eternity’ on the way, a new A24 movie directed by David Freyne that also stars Callum Turner, Elizabeth Olsen and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.

It’s the story of how, after death, everybody gets one week to choose where to spend eternity. But for main characters Joan, Larry, and Luke, it’s really a question of who to spend it with.

While the movie doesn’t have a set release date in place yet, it’s already drawing potential awards buzz.

Then there is ‘Michael,’ the musical biopic of superstar Michael Jackson, in which Teller plays John Branca, Jackson’s manager, lawyer and close friend. The movie currently has an October release window from Lionsgate, though there has been chatter about legal issues surrounding the depiction of one of his accusers in a sexual abuse case, and the potential for the movie to be split in two so as to cover the full breadth of Jackson’s story.

Outside of those, there is animated tale ‘The Ark and the Aardvark,’ in which Teller voices Gilbert, the titular creature, who is given the task of shepherding the animals on to Noah’s Ark.

The actor is also attached to the long-developing third outing for the ‘Top Gun’ franchise, where he would reprise the role of Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, AKA the son of Anthony Edwards’ Goose from the 1986 original.

There are a number of other projects on his To Do list, including crime thriller ‘Wild Game,’ ‘Bartali,’ another sporting tale (where Teller would here play champion cyclist Gino Bartali, who put his career on hold to fight in World War II) and Martin Scorsese’s wishlist project ‘The Life of Jesus,’ which also has Andrew Garfield attached but has still yet to shoot.

Here’s what the legendary director told the L.A. Times about the movie:

“I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized religion. Right now, ‘religion,’ you say that word and everyone is up in arms because it’s failed in so many ways. But that doesn’t mean necessarily that the initial impulse was wrong. Let’s get back. Let’s just think about it. You may reject it. But it might make a difference in how you live your life — even in rejecting it. Don’t dismiss it offhand. That’s all I’m talking about.”

When will ‘Winter Games’ be on screens?

Paramount has yet to give the movie a release date. But assuming it films this year (and given Teller’s busy schedule, there’s no certainty of that), it could be out next year.

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