Robbie, a 25-year-old Australian who appeared in the hit film  The Wolf of Wall Street, is attached to a feature called I, Tonya currently being developed by Bryan Unkeless and Clubhouse Pictures, The Hollywood Reporter has reported. 

Steven Rogers is writing the screenplay about Harding, the 1991 World Championships silver medallist, who in 1994 was banned for life from the sport following her involvement in an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan at that year's US Championships.

Kerrigan was attacked by a man who struck her a few inches above the knee.

The attack was traced back to Harding’s former husband Jeff Gillooly and her bodyguard Shawn Eckhardt.

Both Harding and Kerrigan went to that year's Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

Kerrigan, by then fully recovered from her injuries, won the silver medal, while Harding finished eighth. 

Harding avoided further prosecution and a possible jail sentence by pleading guilty to conspiring to hinder prosecution of the attackers.

She received three years probation, 500 hours of community service, and a $160,000 (£113,000/€143,000)  fine.

In her 2008 autobiography, The Tonya Tapes, Harding said that she wanted to call the FBI to reveal what she knew, but refused when Gillooly allegedly threatened her with death following a gunpoint gang rape by him and two other men she did not know.

He denied the allegation. 

Winter Olympic sports have provided a rich source of material for Hollywood.

The film Cool Runnings, released in 1993, told the story of the participation of the Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

In 2004 a movie, called Miracle, about the United States gold medal victory over the Soviet Union in the ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid was a hit.

Earlier this month, Eddie the Eagle, a film about British ski jumper Eddie Edwards, was released.