Remember Blown Away… the movie that was a lot like Speed that came out the same summer as Speed? It starred Jeff Bridges instead of Keanu Reeves? Well, the guy who wrote Blown Away, John Rice, is making his big screen directorial debut. Rice has written a comedy called Stan’s Cup that will feature a quirky town attempting to re-write history by playing some hockey.

Screenwriter John Rice has been certainly been through the terrain of action flicks. Not only did he pen 1994’s Blown Away, but he also wrote Windtalkers and The Calling. According to THR, Rice is moving into the territory of comedy with his newest venture in filmmaking, Stan’s Cup. The film will follow a washed up hockey super-star who has retired in a city dubbed “Hockeytown USA.” In order to honor the legacy of his father, the hockey-player sets up a legendary hockey game that involves the inhabitants of his town and a team of Russians. The town must play a re-match to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” game.

The film is based on the life of John Erickson, a former baseball player who now runs sports schools that teach hockey. Kirk Roos wrote the concept for the script and will also serve as an executive producer. Erickson, Roos and Jeff Schlossman make up the production company that will finance the film, Old Timers Llp. HR claims that “The filmmakers see the movie having a Full Monty vibe rather than one of a traditional sports movie, focusing on an unusual place and the eccentric people who inhabit it.” The film will be shot on location in Warroad, MN, a town that does, indeed, call itself “Hockeytown USA.”

I can’t imagine how the writer of Blown Away got enlisted to write and direct this coming of older age story, but I must admit, I like the sound of it. I think the ice is a great place for some comedy to happen.