ESPN said today that 'Vick', the two-part 30for30 documentary about former NFL star Michael Vick, will premiere at 9 p.m. Thursday, January 30
and Original Content, told Deadline in an interview. “Filmmakers used to laugh at me when I’d call, like, ‘I’m not going to make a TV movie with highlight clips.’ But we have a leg up now and we have a lot of people reaching out to us.
Early doers included Barry Levinson, Spike Lee, Ron Shelton, Albert Maysles and the Hughes Bros. Their topics had plenty of edge — hardly the norm for an ad-supported network that could have just coasted on its $8 billion in annual profit. Films explored the intersection of Colombian soccer and cocaine trafficking; the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur; and the role of race in former NBA star Allen Iverson’s conviction on riot-related charges that later were dropped.
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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