Selena Gomez is established to star as Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in the Peruvian mountaineer and social entrepreneur’s biopic, per The Hollywood Reporter. 

The film, In the Shadow of the Mountain, is dependent on the upcoming memoir of the identical title written by mountaineer Vásquez-Lavado. Vásquez-Lavado was not only the first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest, but she was also the first brazenly gay woman to comprehensive the 7 Summits—which is the obstacle of climbing the highest mountains on each individual continent. 

Scott Budnick’s One Community is set to deliver the film along with Oscar winner Donna Gigliotti who will make the movie underneath her Tempesta Films banner. In the Shadow of the Mountain suits with the course of One Local community which backed Michael B. Jordan’s Just Mercy. The film will present how this sufferer of assault fought by her trauma to become an achieved mountaineer. Outside of scaling mountains, Vásquez-Lavado’s do the job in survivor circles has been praised. 

“Silvia is a force of mother nature. Scott and I are so energized to perform with Elgin and Selena to explain to this tale of resilience, courage, journey and humanity,” Gigliotti reported, when Budnick additional: “We are thrilled to get to function bringing Silvia’s remarkable and inspiring tale to daily life onscreen.”