Source: Variety

Variety says, Josh Lucas has signed on for SMART, a biopic based on the eccentric life of GQ and Esquire magazine founder David Smart. Bruce Nash's Nash Entertainment is producing along with Lucas' just-launched 2 Bridges Prods.

SMART centers on the magazine powerhouse whose life was almost entirely consumed by his germ phobia. He and a circle of colleagues created a long string of classroom instructional films on health and hygiene. Meanwhile, he led an unorthodox personal life and was known for his womanizing and affinity for shirtless photos of himself.

Charlie Peters penned the screenplay.

Lucas will star as a fictional FBI investigator who infiltrates Smart's world. Title character has not yet been cast.