Alicia Doyle’s book, ‘Fighting Chance,’ optioned by indie filmmaker Slavica Bogdanov.
Well before Alicia Doyle wrote her first book, Hollywood was interested in her story – that of theThat first book, “Fighting Chance,” was self-published in 2020, released just before COVID-19 sent us all searching for books and TV shows and other distractions to keep us occupied during a lockdown.
“I look back now and I realize that I wasn’t ready to reveal everything that happened. And now I am.” Assuming things go smoothly, filming should begin in mid-November – in New Jersey, not Hollywood – with a release date to be determined. It is about boxing, true, but it goes deeper. Bogdanov said the script would also be “about fighting depression and how we’re all on this journey of fighting that dark side. … I thought it could encourage a lot of people to just open up about depression and talk about it more openly and maybe, you know, enlighten a younger generation that doesn’t even know that what they’re dealing with might be depression.
“And so I just dove in and started writing. I had journaled the entire time I was boxing, I had tons of notes. So all the content was there. I just had to sit down and go through it. And it was hard. I also had a dear friend, Ivor Davis, who is an author out here in Ventura, who also encouraged me to write the boxing book. I was actually working on another book at the time, and I was picking his brain about that book and he said, ‘You need to write your boxing book first.
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