X-Men producer bringing Ronald Reagan biopic to theaters next year

The story of Ronald Reagan’s life, is coming to the big screen, according to THR.

The $30 million project will simply be titled Reagan, is currently scheduled for release late next year, and will be based on two best-selling biographies of the 40th U.S. president by Paul Kengor – The Crusader and God and Ronald Reagan.

Ralph Winter, one of the producers on all four X-Men film adaptations, along with both Fantastic Four movies and the 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes, is one of the producers on Reagan. He’ll be joined in the producer’s booth by Mark Joseph and Jonas McCord.

Reagan begins with the 1981 assassination attempt and tells the former president’s story through flashbacks and flash-forwards.

McCord describes Reagan’s childhood as “a surreal Norman Rockwell painting with his alcoholic Catholic father, devout Christian mother, Catholic brother and ever-changing boarders the family took in.”

No actors or director have been signed, and the producers are in the midst of a final round of funding. The filmmakers also created the production company Rawhide Pictures, an homage to the Secret Service code name for Reagan.