Comments on: ESPN & NFL to Bring ‘Lombardi’ to the Silver Screen https://staging2.theplaylist.net/espn-nfl-to-bring-lombardi-to-silver-20090730/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 02:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/espn-nfl-to-bring-lombardi-to-silver-20090730/#comment-9247 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:14:43 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6731#comment-9247 I can't see this coming out in theatres and "resembling the tone of Raging Bull" as the NFL and ESPN say. It'll be Any Given Sunday at best, and I see it resembling Friday Night Lights or that ESPN movie about an Indiana basketball coach with Josh Lucas.

The NFL, for all its fanfair, has a bit of an image problem too.
It feels like the Moneyball situation, where the Sports League will have the biggest say in the final cut and script, and anything that makes the league look slightly bad will be changed, even to the story telling.

And ESPN should not be trusted to pursue artistic integrity of any kind. Its interests and priorities are completely alighned with those of the nfl.

This will be a 2 hour budweiser commercial.

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