Director of ‘The Dynasty’ explains how Patriots documentary was created originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
There have been documentaries and several books about the New England Patriots’ unprecedented NFL success from 2001 through 2019. Some of them have been really well done, others have been just OK.
The latest telling of the story has a lot of people excited, and for good reason.
A new documentary titled, The Dynasty, will be released Friday, Feb. 16 exclusively on Apple TV+. Two episodes will come out each Friday for five consecutive weeks until all 10 are available.
One of the great things about this documentary is that it’s not told through one lens. It’s not a puff piece for Robert Kraft, or Tom Brady or Bill Belichick. There were interviews with more than 70 people, including just about every major player/coach/exec you could imagine, who all candidly tell their side of the story.
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Getting all of these perspectives was really important to the doc’s director, Matt Hamacheck, who recently joined NBC Sports Boston’s Patriots Talk Podcast.
“There’s been a million different tellings of this story. A lot of them were through a very specific lens,” Hamacheck said. “But if you’ve got 70 people and you’ve got Ernie Adams, the director of football research, you’ve got Scott Pioli and you’ve got Bill Belichick, and then you also have everybody from Ty Law to Rob Gronkowski, Tom Brady. From the players’ perspective, it’s a collection of voices telling the story. It’s not one specific lens. And that was so important to us when we were starting out is that this is not any one person’s story.
“And it goes back to that line at the end when (Scott) Pioli is talking about how it’s almost insulting to even ask the question, is it Brady or is it Belichick? Because it is a collection of all these voices. When you have this opportunity to talk…
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Publish date : 2024-02-16 21:20:26
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