Mookie Betts Wants to ‘Be Known as More Than an Athlete’ With His Jackie Robinson Doc
thewrap.comdeal he and his company One Media/Marketing Group (OMG) signed with Propagate in January to develop films, scripted and unscripted TV shows and podcasts.
In the interview, Betts sat down along with his producing partners Cam Lewis and Jeff Mason, who explained that OMG has four other projects in development, including a limited series, another scripted project and two game shows. “Get to the Bag” is an unconventional approach to a documentary that recruits Brooklyn-based rapper Skyzoo in order to tell Robinson’s history via a hip-hop lyrical narrative.
In addition to interviews with historians and baseball stars, the film is set in the Ebbets Field Apartments Complex, the former site of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ old stadium.
And it examines Robinson’s choice to unexpectedly retire from baseball and enter into the workforce, establishing himself as an entrepreneur and an advocate for the civil rights movement later in his life.
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