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re: Andre the Giant documentary coming to HBO
Posted on 11/9/17 at 2:33 pm to Jack Ruby
Posted on 11/9/17 at 2:33 pm to Jack Ruby
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Bill Simmons and HBO are making it, a work he has been trying to get made forever.
Is this the first thing Simmons has done since his failed talk show? I wonder what other subjects they have planned?
I know he was working for years to get the 30 for 30 on AtG going.
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Posted on 11/9/17 at 6:39 pm to skullhawk
Simmons was essentially the sparkplug 30 for 30..its his vision. Supposedly he always admired HBO Sports Docs (deservedly so) and he was the producer on all those early espn documentaries.
He's been laying really low on the HBO sidez I think he still writes and does his podcast but that's all for his own website, which I think HBO owns a piece of.
The TV show was a disaster, but I remember him talking about the Andre the Giant doc years and years ago. Espn just never thought there was a market for it, that's another reason the two parties' relationship soured.
I did not like the production on the Flair doc, the cartoon stuff was very cheap feeling and I don't think the quality of the project was near what some of the other 30 for 30's have been.
HBO has so much more gravitas in their sports documentaries, plus they have an exclusive deal with Liev Schreiber to narrate, the best in the business.
He's been laying really low on the HBO sidez I think he still writes and does his podcast but that's all for his own website, which I think HBO owns a piece of.
The TV show was a disaster, but I remember him talking about the Andre the Giant doc years and years ago. Espn just never thought there was a market for it, that's another reason the two parties' relationship soured.
I did not like the production on the Flair doc, the cartoon stuff was very cheap feeling and I don't think the quality of the project was near what some of the other 30 for 30's have been.
HBO has so much more gravitas in their sports documentaries, plus they have an exclusive deal with Liev Schreiber to narrate, the best in the business.
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