Will Smith has signed up to play Richard Williams in the movie King Richard, Variety reports. Richard is the father of global tennis stars and sisters Venus and Serena Williams.
King Richard will be based on a script written by Zach Baylin and according to Variety, the film “will center on Richard Williams overcoming hardship, skepticism, controversy, and his own troubled past to instruct his daughters, starting when they were four years old on the tennis courts of Compton, Calif. – despite not having a background in tennis.”
