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BREAKING: Sean Combs has joined the Oscar nominated documentary Undefeated as executive producer, and he will be involved in a narrative remake that The Weinstein Company is working on. The remake was part of the deal when TWC acquired the film after it debuted at SXSW. The hip hop icon known as P Diddy will take the executive producer title on both the docu and the remake.
Directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, Undefeated is a verite style documentary that focuses on three underprivileged student athletes and the volunteer coach who guides them through a football season in North Memphis. They play for the Manassas High School Tigers, which never won a playoff game and at one point was so bad that the school would sell its regular season games to rival schools looking for a punching bag to beat up. That changed when businessman Bill Courtney volunteered to help and put the Tigers in a position to end a 110-year old playoff drought. TWC will begin rolling out the film February 17. The docu was produced by Exclusive Media’s Spitfire Pictures and Zipper Bros Films.
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Gotta hand it to Harvey — he knows how to add zero value to a project. Fred Durst… P Diddy.
I understand Shaggy and Spin Doctors are looking for a piece of the pie too, Harv — why don’t you give their managers a call?
You’re forgetting Master P and Troy “Boondock Saints” Duffy.
Why not start attaching the estates of dead celebrities as producers too…
Dickens produced by Dickens.
Maybe Arthur Ash might like to get in on an HBO tennis doc?
Good gig getting to produce a movie that’s in the can already.
“Verite style documentary.”
“Remake of a documentary.”
Anyone else confused?
They remake documentaries as regular movies all the time. Grey Gardens. They’re remaking The King of Kong as a feature.
Love to know who made this happen at CAA. Pulled a rabbit out of a hat.
The continued relevance of witless, talentless boors like Diddy and his buddy Wahlberg are a key reason that people believe still believe in the Illuminati.
What’s with high profile people in the industry (sometimes with disposable incomes or company with fitting resources), who come onto Indie films after all the labor, blood, sweat, starvation, brutality is over/ They swing in on a crystal chandelier at the last moment to garnish accolades, without lifting a f*cking finger! Why don’t they just actively seek to help filmmakers in the advance stages of pre-pro/development; seek them out, walk beside them through the trenches? Oh, because they can’t identify a filmmaker who actually has vision or quantify a story’s value unless/until “someone slides the film in finished form, across their desk.”
There are a few descriptive words missing from the description of the film.
Anyway, I suppose if I made millions selling materialism and vodka to 13-year-olds, I’d get bored and want to buy a piece of some somber movies to make myself feel better. Especially after the laughable “Biggie changed his ways right before he was shot but nobody saw it” ending of his pet project.
“hip hop icon” my goodness.
Absolutely the most talentless, douche in the game. Is he going to whisper a line or two in the doc… Or make a “cameo” like he does in all music videos under his label?
I’ve never heard a rapper so awful that you can tell instantly whether he used his ghostwriter or attempted to write himself.
Terrrible decision. Terrible.
Agreed, odd that he joins the movie now, but on the flip side, his name brings a new dimension and increased exposure for a smaller film.
C’mon guys. Reality check. This is a doc. A truly exceptional Oscar nominated doc. But at the end of the day it’s a doc. Very few docs and doc filmmakers have the platform to really get their films out there into the market. This can only help. It’s a smart move no matter what you think of the players.
And also Sean Combs is not Fred Durst (all due respect to Mr. Durst).