Apple TV+ Slates Michael J. Fox Nonfiction Film

Apple TV+ has unveiled a new untitled feature film about the life of actor and advocate Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future, Spin City).

From Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman, He Named Me Malala), the film is currently in production in New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver. It will incorporate documentary, archival and scripted elements to recount Fox’s story in his own words.

The film will follow Fox’s rise from an undersized kid from a Canadian army base to Hollywood stardom in the 1980s. It will also delve into the years that followed his diagnosis, at 29, of Parkinson’s disease. It is produced by Concordia Studio. The project marks the second partnership for Apple and Concordia Studio following the Emmy Award-winning documentary Boys State.

Guggenheim, Annetta Marion, Will Cohen and Jonathan King serve as producers, with Laurene Powell Jobs, Jonathan Silberberg, Nicole Stott and Fox’s longtime producing partner Nelle Fortenberry executive producing.