Tyra Banks and Forbes Entertainment plan film about sports bra inventors

Tyra Banks and Forbes Entertainment are developing a feature film about the women who invented the sports bra, Deadline reported on 21 October 2026. The project will tell the story of Lisa Lindahl, Polly Smith and Hinda Miller, whose Jogbra debuted in 1977 and changed athletic clothing for women.

Britt Brewer is writing the screenplay, according to Deadline. Banks will executive produce, produce through her company SMiZE Productions and have a role in the film. The project is still taking shape: the next steps described by Deadline are finding a director and casting the principal roles.

The women behind the Jogbra

Deadline said the film was inspired by a 2020 Forbes story by Maggie McGrath about the sports bra’s origins. That story provides the starting point for a feature centered on the inventors and how their idea became a product. Lindahl, Smith and Miller each gave Deadline statements welcoming the prospect of bringing their story to the screen.

Banks’s role in the film

Banks told Deadline she connected with the inventors’ story through her own experience wearing a sports bra and wanted it to reach a wider audience. Deadline also reported that she will appear in the film, though it did not specify her role. Her participation therefore spans both the production and the planned screen adaptation.

The director and lead cast have yet to be chosen, according to Deadline. The company did not give a production start or release date in the report. For now, the announced project has a writer, a producing partnership and its three historical subjects, with the principal creative appointments still ahead.