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Battle of the Sexes is an upcoming American sports comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and written by Simon Beaufoy.
The plot is loosely based on the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
The film stars Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Elisabeth Shue, Austin Stowell, and Sarah Silverman.
The film is scheduled to be released on September 22, 2017, by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Cast
- Emma Stone as Billie Jean King, one of two tennis stars
- Steve Carell as Bobby Riggs, one of two tennis stars
- Andrea Riseborough as Marilyn Barnett, King's hairdresser and lover
- Sarah Silverman as Gladys Heldman, the founder of World Tennis magazine
- Bill Pullman
- Alan Cumming as Ted Tinling, King's fashion designer and close friend
- Elisabeth Shue
- Austin Stowell as Larry King, King's husband
- Natalie Morales as Rosie Casals, a tennis player
- Eric Christian Olsen as Lornie Kuhle, a younger tennis pro and friend of Riggs, who becomes his advisor
- Lewis Pullman as Larry Riggs, Riggs’s son
- Jessica McNamee as Margaret Court
- Martha MacIsaac as Jane Bartkowicz
- Wallace Langham as Henry