Fox Searchlight will release Battle of the Sexes, the upcoming Billie Jean King biopic starring Academy Award winner Emma Stone as it follows the 29-year-old tennis player’s rise to fame during a 1973 highly publicized competition with former Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), on September 22nd, just in time for it to gain notoriety for awards season.
The film also stars Andrea Riseborough as Marilyn Barnett, King’s hairdresser and lover, Elisabeth Shue as Riggs’ wife, Austin Stowell as King’s husband, Sarah Silverman as Gladys Heldman, the founder of World Tennis magazine; Natalie Morales as tennis player Rosie Casals, and Jessica McNamee as tennis player Margaret Court.
