Tiger Woods Biopic in the Works with Barack and Michelle Obama in Talks to Produce

Mar. 15, 2025

Tiger Woods on Feb. 18.Photo:Megan Briggs/TGL via Getty

Megan Briggs/TGL via Getty

Tiger Woods' life story is getting the movie treatment.

Amazon MGM Studios picked up the film rights to Kevin Cook’s recent biography about the golf star,The Tiger Slam, according to studio reps.

BarackandMichelle Obama, through their production company Higher Ground, are in talks to produce. Reinaldo Marcus Green, who made the tennis biopicKing Richard, is being eyed to direct.

The Tiger Slam, published in December 2024, is a “gripping, inside-the-ropes account of an astonishing streak of victories that left Woods’s rivals scrambling to keep up,” per asynopsis.

Cook, a formerSports Illustratedsenior editor and editor in chief ofGolf Magazine, includes in the book accounts from “many of golf’s biggest names — Tiger’s caddie, his coach, his opponents, his idols and others, all offering fresh insight into the electrifying highs of his victories and the obstacles on and off the course that threatened his relentless pursuit of perfection.”

Barack and Michelle Obama in 2014.Theo Wargo/WireImage

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Woods, 49, recently played in the inaugural TGL golf league. He was said to be eyeing the Masters next month — where he made the tournament’s cut for the 24th consecutive time last year — but recently underwent surgery afterrupturing his Achilles tendon. “I am back home now and plan to focus on my recovery and rehab,” hewroteon social media.

The golfer also announced last month that hismother, Kutilda Woods,diedat age 81. “My Mom was a force of nature all her own, her spirit was simply undeniable,” hesharedFeb. 4.

source: people.com