Remember British hero Captain Tom? Now he’s getting a movie

The uplifting story of 100-year-old British hero Captain Tom Moore, who kept a nation in lockdown inspired, is being turned into a feature film, fast-tracked for production in 2021.

Britain’s Fred Films and Powder Keg Pictures won a bidding war for the life rights to the former British Army captain and World War II hero, who raised £38.9 million ($A69 million) for the country’s National Health Service by walking laps of his garden in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19…