In a pitch meeting, it’s easy to see the appeal of Diana Nyad. Surely her great story would easily translate into a great movie. In 2013, the 64-year-old became the first person to swim from Cuba to ...

In “Nyad,” there are two feats of perseverance on display. First, there is the ceaseless determination of Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) to accomplish a marathon swim from Cuba to Florida across 103 ...

The athletic feat at the centre of Netflix's Nyad is incredible — so much so that many have been questioning it for a decade. Back in 2013, 64-year-old swimmer Diana Nyad swam from Havana, Cuba to Key ...

Diana Nyad had already secured her reputation as one of the greatest marathon swimmers in the world, and she had nothing to prove to anybody—except herself. A member of the U.S. National Women's ...

Diana Nyad had been a world-class endurance athlete for years when, after swimming around Manhattan in a little under eight hours in 1975, she became a celebrity and a talk-show staple. At the age of ...

The word “Nyad” is a derivation of “naiad,” the water nymph from Greek mythology. Should you forget this crucial information, never fear; you will be reminded, early and often, by Diana Nyad herself, ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Nyad, Julia Cox‘s adaptation of Diana Nyad’s memoir that was the diving-off point for directors ...

Moviefone attends the press conference for the biographical sports drama ’Nyad,’ where Annette Bening and Jodie Foster team up to tell the story of an astonishing long-distance swim. Even though it’s ...