Rupert Grint to be Eddie the Eagle

Harry Potter's Ronald Weasley has a new film coming up, and it sounds perfect for him.

Harry Potter star reportedly set to replace Steve Coogan in a comedy biopic of the British ski-jumping phenomenon

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint looks poised to play Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards in a comedy biopic of the British skiing legend. According to the Sunday Mirror, Grint will replace original choice Steve Coogan in the production, which is due to begin filming next month.

A little background: Back at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Edwards, a bespectacled English plasterer with relatively no athletic training finished dead last in the ski-jump. But his jumps were nevertheless riveting since his every attempt was a potential “agony of defeat” video clip. Ski-jumping officials did their darnedest to keep him out of the competition — for his own safety. Somehow, “the Inspector Clouseau of ski jumping“ survived to bask in more than 15 minutes of fame, appearing on Johnny Carson and recording an atrocious single, “Fly, Eddie, Fly.”