The past decade for ESPN has been an eventful one, to put it mildly. The Disney-owned sports powerhouse has broadcast some of the highest-rated games in its history, re-upped with the NBA and NFL, …
. A former superstar NFL quarterback, Vick is is better known in some parts of the country for being prosecuted for running a dog-fighting ring. Despite his initial hesitation years ago about the notion of ESPN being a force in feature film, he said “they’ve really progressed and grown” as a “filmmaker-centric” operation.
Seeing the O.J. Simpson project, which aired as a five-part miniseries but also screened theatrically as an extra-long feature, underscored Nelson’s belief “that these films could be a lot bigger and do a lot more” than tell conventional tales.was, it didn’t establish multi-part stories as a fixture.
“You can’t just replicate that 100 times over,” she said. “It really has to be organic. That film wasn’t ever designed to be as long as it came out, but the material warranted it. We certainly have a couple of stories in the pipeline with that kind of potential, so we’ll see.”initiative from the start as an assistant producer, Geist has seen it evolve and thinks it will thrive during Jimmy Pitaro’s tenure as ESPN president.
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