Bill Simmons provides an update on Vince McMahon’s upcoming docuseries.
Speaking to Jimmy Traina on the SI Media podcast, Simmons gave his latest update, noting that the series will likely be out in the first part of next year.
“I think it’s going to be the first part of next year. Chris Smith is directing it, I don’t know if he’s one of the five best documentary directors or one of the three, whatever shortlist there is, he’s on it. We spent a lot of time on it. I don’t want to say too much….”
“It’s a few parts. I’m pretty passionate about this. I think people pump…they add parts or make this stuff longer than it needs to be because that’s how you get paid more to do a documentary. I’m anti-that guy. I want these things to be the exact right length. I could never figure it out with my column, my column was always too long, but shaping a documentary is a lot like writing a column and figuring out, ‘I love that paragraph, but I have to cut it out. This moves better if I take that out.’ With documentaries, if someone is doing it correctly, they are amazing pieces of art. It’s not just the director. There are a couple of editors, but there is usually one incredible editor, which we have for this. It’s a lot of people involved and there is real TLC. You can’t think of it like, ‘we can stretch this to six hours. This could be six instead of four.’ I think that’s crazy. This is about Vince McMahon, his life, and wrestling, so obviously, it can’t be two hours,”
Bill Simmons
Simmons continued, and was asked about how he believes Vince will feel about the documentary.
“I don’t know. I would never speak for Vince. He’s been in my life for my entire life. I literally cannot remember my life without him being in it. If you look at him from…strip away all the other stuff and just talk about the last 50 years he had, pretty good topic for a documentary,”
Bill Simmons
Since the announcement of the series, Vince has been investigated for sexual misconduct and hush money allegations, forced to retire as WWE CEO, forced his way back in to the board of directors, and made a deal with Endeavor to merge WWE and UFC after selling to the company.
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