Selena Gomez has a new film in the works! Tempesta Films and One Community announced on Tuesday that the 28-year-old singer will star in and produce , an upcoming biopic about Silvia Vásquez-Lavado, a record-breaking, gay mountaineer.
The film is based on Vásquez-Lavado's memoir of the same name, which is due out in February 2022.The mountaineer was the first Peruvian woman to summit Mt.
Everest and the first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits, a challenge to climb the highest mountain on each continent.
Vásquez-Lavado, who was a victim of childhood assault and neglect, found healing and power in mountaineering. As such, she has organized treks to Mt.