BREAKING NEWS: Tiger Woods biopic in the works with Barack and Michelle Obama in talks to produce.giang

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.

Barack and Michelle Obama, through their production company Higher Ground, are in talks to produce. Reinaldo Marcus Green, who made the tennis biopic King 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 a synopsis.

Cook, a former Sports Illustrated senior editor and editor in chief of Golf 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.”

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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 after rupturing his Achilles tendon. “I am back home now and plan to focus on my recovery and rehab,” he wrote on social media.

The golfer also announced last month that his mother, Kutilda Woods, died at age 81. “My Mom was a force of nature all her own, her spirit was simply undeniable,” he shared Feb. 4.

Under their production banner, the Obamas have brought to the screen a variety of film and TV projects, including Rustin, Leave the World Behind and recent docuseries Our Oceans and Court of Gold. Green, after the success of 2021’s King Richard, directed and co-wrote 2024 Bob Marley biopic Bob Marley: One Love.