*LeBron James and his business partner Maverick Carter will executive produce a documentary about track and field legend Carl Lewis.
The film will be co-directed by Noah Media Group’s Gabriel Clarke and Chris Hay, with James, Carter, Jamal Henderson, and Philip Byron executive producing for Uninterrupted, Variety reports.
During his 18-year track and field career, Lewis won nine Olympic gold medals. The International Olympic Committee named him Sportsman of the Century. The film will chronicle his rise as a superstar athlete and feature exclusive insight from Lewis’ family and closest friends. The doc will also include rare archival footage showing the impact of his career.
Clarke said: “We are absolutely delighted to be partnering with Carl to tell his timely and important story. The aim has always been to capture the true scale of his sporting and cultural impact, making LeBron, Maverick and the brilliant Uninterrupted team the ideal production teammates.”
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Lewis recently said that the secret to his success is the numerous sacrifices he had to make to achieve greatness.
“The greatest thing about sport is that the basics will never change. It is hard work, dedication and sacrifice. And that sacrifice is practicing day in and day out. Maybe, you can’t go to places…[or be in] relationships. Everyone that has success has the same message—hard work, focus, dedication and sacrifice. We want to tell the young people that hey it works. Everybody told me that and now I am telling them that,” Lewis told Mid-Day while at the Indian Sports Honours at a Juhu hotel last week.
“I wanted to jump 8.90m and run a world record in the 100m. I wanted to be very rich and famous. So every day at practice, I had those four things in mind. But I knew that [being] rich and famous won’t happen without hard work and dedication,” he continued.
“Now, we are in an era of social media. A lot of young people think that it replaces a lot of the work. It doesn’t. You still have to speak well. You must have a good story and you have to work hard,” added Lewis.
