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Channing Tatum to Play Evel Knievel in Brand New Biopic

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Jul. 11 2012, Published 2:55 p.m. ET

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Channing Tatum will put his muscles and enormous athletic ability to good use playing Evel Knievel in a biopic about the daredevil's life.

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The upcoming movie (that's still in the development phases) is based on the 2008 biography Life of Evel.

Evel gained fame in the 1960s for his amazing, death-defying motorcycle jumps and over the next two decades took his act everywhere from Las Vegas to The Grand Canyon to Snake River Valley. He's a Guinness Book of World Records holder for surviving the most broken bones (44) throughout his career.

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Channing is not only in talks to star but also produce the movie, alongside producers Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti.

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Meanwhile, 2012 is turning out to be a make it or break it year for Channing, and boy is he making it. 

Aside from a roster of upcoming movies already in the works, his semi-autobiographical ode to male stripping, Magic Mike, is doing well at the box office, making $75 million to date, and there's talk for a Broadway musical and sequel.

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"Yes, yes and yes! We’re working on the concept now," Channing told Glamour UK about a Magic Mike Part 2. "We want to flip the script and make it bigger.”

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