Daniel Radcliffe To Cast In ‘Gold’

daniel_2013LONDON — LONDON (AP) — “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to play British Olympic runner Sebastian Coe in a movie about rivalries on the running track.

“Gold” will tell the story of the tense rivalry between Coe and fellow middle distance runner Steve Ovett in the run-up to the 1980 Moscow Olympics, where Ovett won the 800 meters and Coe took the 1500 meters. Coe, also a gold medalist in 1984, went on to become a politician and headed the London organizing committee at last year’s summer Olympics.

The movie reunites the 24-year-old Radcliffe with James Watkins, the director of the 2012 film “The Woman in Black.”

Source: Associated Press