Football, a sport generally associated with cinematic glory — cheering crowds, hoisting the quarterback up in victory, that thing where people dump gatorade on their coaches when they win — is about to get a somber wake up call. League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth, written by brothers and Espn reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, is an in-depth report of football-related head injuries and the NFL’s inability to protect its players from those concussions. Now the book is getting a movie and television development deal after serving as the basis for the critically acclaimed PBS Frontline documentary The League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis, which shined a bright light on the issue — to the point where Espn withdrew from their investigatory partnership with PBS before the documentary aired. Allegedly, according to Deadline, the network succumbed to pressure from the NFL, to which it pays upward of $1b each year for...
- 12/10/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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