By Craig T. Kojima, Star-Bulletin
Mark Foo is shown attending the
Eddie Aikau Big Wave Service in 1993.
Surfer’s death to
be in Hanks film
The movie will be about
Staff and wire reports
Maverick's Beach, where
Mark Foo died in 1994The death of Hawaii big-wave rider Mark Foo will be explored in a movie produced by Tom Hanks.
Hanks, the star of "Saving Private Ryan," has hired Jon Krakauer, author of "Into Thin Air," an account of a fatal climb of Mount Everest, to write the script for his project about Foo and his fellow daredevil wave-riders.
Hanks will serve as a producer of the untitled Universal project and could potentially play a role.
The story will be about the discovery by surfer Jeff Clark of the now-legendary big-wave haven in northern California called Maverick's. Foo, a media darling for his dangerous surfing stunts, died at Maverick's on Dec. 23, 1994.
Foo was 36 when he wiped out in 15- to 18-foot waves at Maverick's Beach at Half Moon Bay, 35 miles south of San Francisco. He lost control of his board on a large wave. The board was snapped into three pieces.
Born in Singapore, Foo was raised in the islands and pursued surfing as a profession. He designed surfboards, developed a surf radio program, produced features for Hawaii Public Television and wrote for national surfing publications.
