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Part of what makes the Oscar-nominated documentary *The Cove *so riveting is that the film is treated like an espionage thriller. And we can probably thank screenwriter Mark Monroe for much of its exciting narrative. Whether as a writer, director or producer, Monroe tends to work on documentaries with a sporting or adventuring edge. Prior to The Cove, he’d been involved with docs and series about soccer teams, boxing, basketball and sailing. His most recent film, Amir Bar-Lev’s Sundance hit The Tillman Story, tackles the story of a pro football player turned tragic war hero.
Monroe’s next sport to document is Formula One racing, according to Variety. He’ll write the currently untitled project for occasional collaborator Paul Crowder, a filmmaker who also has a background in sports documentaries, having co-directed *Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos *and edited Stacy Peralta’s *Riding Giants *and Dogtown and Z-Boys and Monroe’s own Morning Light. The duo doesn’t solely film sports movies, though. Monroe and Crowder just recently worked together, for instance, on a documentary about Silicon Valley pioneers William Shockley and Robert Noyce (titled The Real Revolutionaries).
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