In a pitch meeting, it’s easy to see the appeal of Diana Nyad. Surely her great story would easily translate into a great movie. In 2013, the 64-year-old became the first person to swim from Cuba to ...

As a pitch for a movie, the story sounds preposterous. A 28-year-old swimming phenomenon fails to realize her dream accomplishment − doing the crawl from Cuba to Florida − only to decide that she ...

Nyad tells the story of Diana Nyad, a marathon swimmer who broke records and achieved a number of firsts in the sport. At the age of 60, she decided to complete the feat she wasn’t able to when she ...

Mike Birbiglia‘s fourth Netflix special adapted his Broadway hit show, The New One, charting his evolution from happily childless single man to dutiful husband and father. For his fifth Netflix ...

Bening and Jodie Foster star in the story of athlete Diana Nyad's quest to swim from Cuba to Florida. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter “It has changed my life,” Bening said of swimming ...