HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Deadline reports that Julia Roberts will be producing and starring in a movie based on a terminally ill San Francisco child who wanted to be Batman for a day.
A documentary about the 5-year-old leukemia patient called Batkid Begins is currently featured at the Slamdance Film Festival. The new film with Roberts will be an adaptation of that documentary, with the documentary director as an executive producer. It will be distributed by Red Om Films.