LAS VEGAS, Nov 25 — According to Deadline, Paramount is hoping the acclaimed director will jump at the chance to make a no-holds-barred biopic about the world’s most famous stuntman.

A number of films based on the larger-than-life Evel Knievel and his fearless motorcycling feats are in development and Paramount is in the process of putting together its own film based on Evel Knievel On Tour, a book written by Sheldon Salman and one currently being adapted for the screen by William Monahan.

Monahan co-wrote Scorsese’s “The Departed” — bagging an Oscar in the process, and Paramount has also lined up fellow Martin Scorsese collaborator Terence Winter to produce.

Deadline claims that the studio hopes Winter and Monahan’s involvement, plus the fact that the source material “Evel Knievel On Tour” was a book so hated by Knievel that he attacked its author with a baseball bat will be enough to convince Scorsese to sign up. — AFP-Relaxnews