Basketball star LeBron JamesThe production company SpringHill Company, which he founded with Maverick Carter, is collaborating with the History Channel to produce three documentaries, starting with the title Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics (working title), which will tell the story of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, which were overshadowed by Hitler’s white supremacist agenda, when black track and field athlete Jesse Owens made history by winning four gold medals . Directed by Andre Gaines and narrated by Don Cheadle, the two-hour documentary will feature archival footage, animations and interviews with journalists, historians and Owens’ daughters, as well as athletes including Carl Lewis, Noah Lyles, Erriyon Knighton and Christian Coleman, among the others. .
The second project is “Jim Thorpe” (working title), focusing on the baseball, football and basketball player who became the first Native American Olympic gold medalist. The documentary is directed by Chris Eyre and produced for History Channel by Uninterrupted in association with INE Entertainment, Five All in the Fifth and GroupM Motion. James, Carter, Henderson and Byron are the executive producers of Uninterrupted. Eyre is also executive producing; Mark Koops and Eric Day for INE Entertainment; Doug Banker for Five All in the Fifth; Foster and Fenster for GroupM Motion; and Lehrer and Jim Pasquarella for the History Channel. Courtney Whitaker and Matt Rissmiller serve as co-executive producers for Uninterrupted and Ryan Lohuis produces for Cinemation Studios.
A+E Networks holds worldwide distribution rights to “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics” and “Jim Thorpe.”
Details on the third project are yet to come.
James said of the partnership:
“The SpringHill Company was created to tell important stories, and through this partnership with The HISTORY Channel, we are able to do that on a whole new level. With these documentaries, we want to share those significant moments and figures in history that matter with a whole new generation and continue to empower and inspire through storytelling.”
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via: Variety
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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