Hailee Steinfeld Joins Miles Teller in ‘Winter Games’

She’ll play a perpetually overlooked Olympic skier who forms a bond with Teller’s self-sabotaging hockey legend in the movie from Paul Downs Colaizzo.

(Left) Hailee Seinfeld attends the Academy’s 8th Annual Governors Awards in The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, CA, on Saturday, November 12, 2016. Credit/Provider: Aaron Poole / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.(Right) Actor Miles Teller arrives for the live ABC Telecast of The 87th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 22, 2015.

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Hailee Steinfeld is joining Miles Teller in new drama ‘Winter Games.’
Paul Downs Colaizzo co-wrote and will direct the movie.
It’s set at the Winter Olympics.

Cast your mind back to this past May, when we learned that Miles Teller had agreed to star in a new sports romantic drama called ‘Winter Games.’

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Back then, all we knew is that he will play a rough-and-ready Olympic ice hockey player who is constantly getting into trouble, and who forms a romantic bond with a skier who is constantly overlooked.

Now, via Deadline, word arrives that Hailee Steinfeld, most recently seen in ‘Sinners’, has joined the movie to play opposite Teller as the skier.

The new movie comes courtesy of ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ writer/director Paul Downs Colaizzo, who co-wrote the script and will call the shots.

What’s the story of ‘Winter Games’?

Miles Teller attends the Academy’s 8th Annual Governors Awards in The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, CA, on Saturday, November 12, 2016. Credit/Provider: Aaron Poole / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.

The movie is set in the high-stakes arena of the Winter Olympic Games, following a perpetually overlooked skier (Steinfeld) and a self-sabotaging hockey legend (Teller) who collide at their breaking points. Their unexpected connection threatens her chance for a medal and his shot at a comeback as they navigate romance and redemption in the Olympic Village.

Colaizzo co-wrote the script with Pat Cunnane, who recently worked on the script for ‘Eternity,’ a new drama starring and produced by Teller.

And it’s also a reunion for the actor and producers Tim and Trevor White, whose Star Thrower company helped shepherd ‘Eternity’ and will do the same for ‘Winter Games.’

Where else can we see Hailee Steinfeld?

Hailee Steinfeld in 'Hawkeye'. Photo: Disney+.

As mentioned, Steinfeld recently appeared in Ryan Coogler’s hugely successful vampire thriller ‘Sinners’, which has earned more than $355 million worldwide.

Besides ‘Winter Games’, she will reprise her voice role as Gwen Stacy in ‘Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,’ which is now not landing in theaters until 2027.

Also on the vocal front, she’s playing Kate Bishop in MCU animated series ‘Marvel Zombies’, which will hit Disney+ on October 3rd.

Following TV series ‘Hawkeye’ and a brief cameo in the post-credits sting of ‘The Marvels’, Steinfeld is rumored to be part of ‘Champions’, an MCU show set in the wake of ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ that will see the Young Avengers assemble. But that has yet to be confirmed by Marvel.