The film chronicles the famed long-distance swimmer's attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida.
The Big Picture Annette Bening stars as legendary long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in the first images from Nyad. The inspirational true story will premiere on Netflix on November 3. Entertainment Weekly has the first look at the upcoming sports drama, which will chronicle Nyad's attempts to swim 110 miles from Cuba to Florida; the route is described as the "Mount Everest of marathon swimming".
The new images show four-time Oscar nominee Bening in the water as Nyad, who is famed for her ability to swim for hours at a time without rest. The images also feature Jodie Foster as Nyad's longtime coach Bonnie Stoll and Rhys Ifans as John Bartlett, the chief navigator for her support team. Ethan Jones Romero , Luke Cosgrove , Jeena Yi , and Eric T. Miller will also star.
Who Is Diana Nyad? Swimmer Diana Nyad first gained international fame in 1975 when she swam around the entire island of Manhattan in under eight hours. Four years later, on her 30th birthday, she swam from North Bimini Island, in the Bahamas, to Key West, Florida, in twenty-seven hours. However, she is best known for her ongoing efforts to swim from Cuba to Florida.
Nyad is the first dramatic feature from documentarians Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin who won an Oscar in 2018 for the thrilling Free Solo, which followed climber Alex Honnold as he attempted to scale the rock formation El Capitan without safety equipment. Ann Biderman and Julia Cox penned the script. Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar and Black Bear Pictures’ Teddy Schwarzman developed the feature and will produce.
Nyad will premiere at TIFF next month, and will debut on Netflix November 3 after a limited theatrical release. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates, and check out the rest of the new images below.
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