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Alex Gibney Boards MGM’s Series About Judo Champions Saeid Mollaei & Sagi Muki

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EXCLUSIVE: Alex Gibney is to exec produce MGM and Tadmor Entertainment’s limited series about judo champions Saeid Mollaei and Sagi Muki.It comes after Mollaei’s emotional silver medal win the Tokyo Olympics, where the Iranian refugee thanked Israel for his win after being driven out of his home country and now representing Mongolia.

Similarly, Muki helped the Israeli judo team to a bronze medal.Gibney is best known for directing documentaries such as Taxi to the Dark Side and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, but has been moving into scripted television, exec producing series including Hulu’s The Looming Tower and Netflix’s Painkiller and directing an episode of Showtime’s Billions.American-Iranian writer Cyrus Nowrasteh (The Stoning

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