Plans are under way in Hollywood to make a movie about the life of Olympic downhill skier Picabo Street, Daily Variety said Friday.

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The paper said that director Jon Amiel and producer David Foster --who collaborated on the sci-fi adventure "The Core" -- are searching for a writer and plan to take the project to studios. Street will participate in the development of the story.

Amiel and Foster are calling Street's underdog story "Skibiscuit."

Street was born in 1971 in Triumph, Idaho, and raised in a commune. Just weeks after winning a gold medal at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, she shattered her leg, and doctors predicted she would not walk again.

Instead, Street spent the next four years in rehabilitation, qualified for the 2002 U.S. Olympic Team in Salt Lake City and finished 16th in the downhill event.

Street has been enshrined in the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame. She wrote her autobiography, "Picabo: Nothing to Hide," in 2002.