Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.
From Peter Landesman
I love football. I played it into two years of college.
Sony is the only studio without broadcast relationships with the NFL.
I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League.
What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.
I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.
To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.
I don't actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same.
As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.
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