Paralympic gold medalist swimmer Mallory Weggemann’s memoir is headed to the big screen, Deadline reports.
Morning Moon Productions plans to adapt Weggemann’s 2021 book, Limitless: The Power and Hope of Resilience to Overcome Circumstance, as a narrative film.
Weggemann became paralyzed from the waist down in 2008 after receiving an epidural injection meant to treat shingles. Shortly thereafter, she started training for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London; she would go on to win a gold and a bronze medal in swimming events at the games. In the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, she took home two golds and a silver.
Weggemann now works as a motivational speaker and as the co-CEO of the media production company TFA Group, which she co-founded.
Publisher Thomas Nelson says that Weggemann’s memoir “shares the lessons she learned by pushing past every obstacle and expectation that stood in her way.”
Weggemann will serve as an executive producer on the film, alongside Jeremy Snyder and Peter Friedland. Ethan Lazar, Kyle Owens, and Austen Rydell will produce.
Weggemann shared news of the film on Instagram, writing, “Thank you Morning Moon for your vision and support—this is truly about something so much bigger than my story, but the knowing that comes in the power of representation. These moments are reminders that our now doesn’t define what’s to come.”
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
