If you’re mourning the end of the 2022 Winter Olympics, take heart: an iconic Olympian is helping bring a story about her sport to the screen. Silver and bronze medalist Nancy Kerrigan is part of the team behind “Fire & Ice,” a figure skating drama in development at Picturestart. Ashley Powell, the screenwriter behind Disney’s 2018 live-action pic “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms,” is penning the script and Kerrigan is executive producing and will “choreograph select skating sequences for the film,” per The Hollywood Reporter.
“Fire & Ice” will tell the story of two figure skaters competing to qualify for the Olympics. “Over the course of a week at a Winter Olympics training camp, the two lifelong best friends and competitors must juggle pressure from sponsors, romantic temptations, mental health, and their own drive to win — possibly at all costs,” the project’s logline teases.
Kerrigan won a bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics and a silver in 1994. She was portrayed on the big screen by Caitlin Carver (“The Fosters”) in 2017’s “I, Tonya,” a biopic of fellow figure skater Tonya Harding that revisited an orchestrated attack against Kerrigan leading up to the 1994 United States Figure Skating Championships and Winter Olympics. Kerrigan hasn’t seen the Oscar-nominated film and, upon its release, emphasized that she had “nothing to say about it.” She competed in “Dancing with the Stars” in 2017 and appeared as herself on a 2018 episode of “Fresh Off the Boat.” More recently, she had a voice role in the 2021 animated pic “Eggs.”