HBO Sports has scored distribution rights to “The Day Sports Stood Still,” a feature documentary from Emmy-winning director Antoine Fuqua about the global shutdown of pro sports in wake of the coronavirus.
What's buzzing?The film will be anchored by a first-person account from Chris Paul — the NBA All-Star and president of the NBA Players Association, who also serves as executive producer — and will chronicle shutdowns, athletes’ prominent role in the cultural reckoning on racial injustices that escalated during the pandemic and the complex return to competition in the summer and fall.
What's buzzing?The film will be anchored by a first-person account from Chris Paul — the NBA All-Star and president of the NBA Players Association, who also serves as executive producer — and will chronicle shutdowns, athletes’ prominent role in the cultural reckoning on racial injustices that escalated during the pandemic and the complex return to competition in the summer and fall.
Brian Grazer and Justin Wilkes are producing the doc through Imagine Documentaries along with Fuqua Films, to debut in 2021 on HBO and streaming on HBO Max. Paul will produce through his Ohh Dip Productions in association with Waffle Iron Entertainment. Sara Bernstein and Marc Gilbar are executive producers.
The bottom line:The project will also feature in-depth and emotional interviews largely conducted remotely, a broad swath of voices and experiences exploring how the pandemic pressed pause on careers, but also changed their lives in dramatic and surprising ways.
The film features everyone from an NFL Super Bowl champion who volunteers in the ER, to a defending WNBA champ who decides to sit out the 2020 season to focus on protesting racial injustice.
The bottom line:The project will also feature in-depth and emotional interviews largely conducted remotely, a broad swath of voices and experiences exploring how the pandemic pressed pause on careers, but also changed their lives in dramatic and surprising ways.
The film features everyone from an NFL Super Bowl champion who volunteers in the ER, to a defending WNBA champ who decides to sit out the 2020 season to focus on protesting racial injustice.
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