King Richard started with Zach Baylin's 2018 Black List runner-up script about tennis all-stars Venus and Serena Williams' father Richard, gaining even more momentum when Hollywood A-lister Will Smith signed on to play the title role. All that was left was for a studio to acquire the project, finance it, name a director, and set a release date. As the story goes, King Richard can now cross one more item off its production to-do list as Warner Bros. is in final negotiations to pick it up. Variety reports that the studio, which had no comment, …