{"id":21552,"date":"2011-02-16T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21552"},"modified":"2011-02-16T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:33:49","slug":"mavericks-the-jay-moriarity-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21552","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks: The Jay Moriarity Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/20110215_102636_jay_VIEWER.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/20110215_102636_jay_VIEWER.jpg','popup','width=200,height=133,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/20110215_102636_jay_VIEWER-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20110215 102636 Jay Viewer\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walden Media<\/a><\/strong> has announced that Actor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerard_Butler\" target=\"_blank\">Gerard Butler<\/a><\/strong> will star and produce a new biopic based on the life of big wave surfer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surfing-a-to-z\/jay-moriarty-biography-and-photos_868\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Moriarity<\/a><\/strong>. The film will be called <strong><em>Mavericks<\/em><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/san-mateo-county\/ci_17397514\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mavericks&#8221; will focus on the relationship between the veteran surfer Frosty Hesson [to be played by Butler] and his young friend Moriarity as they begin training for Moriarity to ride Mavericks, according to San Francisco big-wave surfer Grant Washburn, who has been involved with the project. . . The film ends with Moriarity finally conquering Mavericks at the age of 15, rather than tracing a story arc all the way to his sad demise as a young man. Filmmakers are looking to cast an unknown actor to play Moriarity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like this could be a great addition to the Hollywood surf genre. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/san-mateo-county\/ci_17397514\" target=\"_blank\">Click the link<\/a><\/strong> for more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/san-mateo-county\/ci_17397514\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walden Media has announced that Actor Gerard Butler will star and produce a new biopic based on the life of big wave surfer Jay Moriarity. The film will be called Mavericks, according to a story in the Mercury News. &#8220;Mavericks&#8221; will focus on the relationship between the veteran surfer Frosty Hesson [to be played by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21553,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21552\/revisions\/21553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}