The sports film industry has certainly developed a niche in Hollywood. We've all seen great baseball, basketball, football, and hockey films. Heck, we've even seen a bobsledding film. However, one sport that is often overlooked is downhill skiing. You'd think that such a popular sport would have established a theatrical calling, however skiing has been surprisingly absent from the film scene.
Not to worry, there is a ski film in the works, which has been a long time coming since Cusack appeared in the mid-eighties classic, Better Off Dead.
Comedy director Ron Underwood is in the process of working on his next film: Woodchucks, a ski comedy about a Vermont ski team that's trying to save their favorite mountain from a corporate resort developer. 
Underwood is known best for City Slickers and Tremors, so Woodchucks is likely to be a lighthearted comedy. Is it possible to make a film that is both a legitimate sports film and a comedy? Well, that's for the viewer to decide. While he hasn't directed sports films in the past, Underwood, an enthusiastic skier, hopes to do the sport justice.
"I'm an avid skier and I can't wait to showcase the sport", Underwood says. He also comments on the lack of ski films within the sports genre. "It's been a long time since 'Downhill Racer,' and while 'Woodchucks' is certainly a lighter tone, it has the makings of the first exciting narrative ski movie in a long time."
