Prime Video Sports Sets Documentary About DeSean Jackson as NFL Star Retires (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAngelique Jackson Prime Video Sports has greenlit a feature-length documentary about NFL star wide receiver DeSean Jackson, the former Philadelphia Eagles great and three-time Pro Bowler who announced his retirement from the league earlier this week.
The untitled documentary is based around footage that DeSean Jackson’s brother, Byron Jackson, began filming 30 years ago. “It started as an attempt to reconnect with his father, but turned into the project of a lifetime — following DeSean’s unexpected rise from nine-year-old Pop Warner prodigy to one of the best wide receivers in NFL history,” a press release describing the film explains.
The project features thousands of hours of intimate home video which, the release notes, “reveals a profoundly complex relationship between two brothers, their father and what it really means to be family, all while under the immense pressure to play football at the highest level.” The announcement of the new film follows the recent success of two Prime Video Sports’ football-themed documentaries — “Kelce,” about Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce; and “Bye Bye Barry,” about hall of fame running back Barry Sanders.
Both documentaries launched during this season of “Thursday Night Football” on Prime Video and set viewership records on the streamer.
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