More than four years after “Foxcatcher” was first announced, director Bennett Miller (MONEYBALL) has found his leading man in Steve Carell, who’s attached to star in MRC’s true story of John du Pont, Variety's Jeff Sneider exclusively reports. A paranoid schizophrenic and heir to the du Pont chemical fortune, du Pont built a wrestling training facility called Team Foxcatcher on his 800-acre Pennsylvania estate, where in 1996, he shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler David Schultz. Schultz was a longtime friend of du Pont who had repeatedly tried to help him. Police never established a motive, and after the shooting, the multi-millionaire locked himself in his mansion for two days while he negotiated with police on the telephone.
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