New Line Cinema has tapped Horrible Bosses and Baywatch director Seth Gordon to helm Boston College Fix, which tells the true story of the Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal of the 1970s.
Deadline is reporting that the film, which is being written by Robert Carlock (30 Rock, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot), will delve into the match-fixing scandal, where notorious gangsters Jimmy Burke and Henry Hill (played by Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas) and a group of Pittburgh mobsters infiltrated the 1979-79 Boston College basketball team, orchestrating a scheme to fix the outcome of games. It was eventually uncovered by the FBI and a federal prosecutor, who found an unlikely way to take them down.
The story of the Boston point-shaving scandal was previously told in the Emmy-winning ESPN ’30 for 30′ documentary Playing for the Mob.
Originally published January 23, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
