ESPN will not air Spike Lee’s docuseries on quarterback Colin Kaepernick | Spike Lee
The filmmaker and ESPN said that the multi -part documentary series, which led to a national debate about the former NFL gamers Colin Kaepernick for multi -part films for director Spike Lee’s ESPN films, will not be published.
“ESPN, Colin Kaepernick and Spike Lee, as a result of some creative differences, decided to continue this project,” ESPN said on Saturday to Reuters. “Although it does not reach the final union, we appreciate all the hard work and cooperation that entered this film.”
Lee told Reuters on Friday would not be released.
“This does not come out. This is the only thing I can say, Lee Lee said on the red carpet in front of Harold and Carole Pump Foundation Dinner in front of the Donation of Donation of Cancer Research and Treatment in California.
The Oscar -winning director refused to elaborate the reason why he referred to an unstable contract. “I can’t. I signed an indifference. I can’t talk about it”.
Kaepernick fired a national debate in 2016 when he kneeling to protest systemic racism and police atrocities during the US National Anthem. The 37 -year -old boy hasn’t played in NFL since that season. Many experts believed that political activism, which triggered a movement that attracted Donald Trump’s anger, was the main reason for teams to be careful about signing it. Later, in 2019, he complained about an agreement against the team owners who settled in the league.
Kaepernick representatives did not respond immediately to the request for comments.
Production began in the series in 2022, and Walt Disney’s ESPN, Kaepernick’s journey to offer comprehensive interviews with the player, appeared as a “full, first person account ..
Last year, Puck News reported The project faced delays due to disputes on the direction of the film between Kaepernick and Lee.
Soap opera joint producer by Jemele Hill, a former ESPN correspondent suspended by Ağ in 2017, suggested that NFL players should boycotted the advertisers of the team of fans who do not participate in the criticism of Dallas Cowboys. A month ago, he frying the White House. Tweet: “Donald Trump is a white superiorist who surrounds himself with other white superiorists.”
The decision of the network to quit the series has pushed the attempts to end the diversity, equality and involveing attempts that the Trump administration has sued the publishers critically reported to the President of the President and that the government now defines the government as illegal discrimination against white Americans.
In December, Disney’s ABC News agreed to pay 15 million dollars to a foundation and museum to be established by Trump as a part of an agreement in an agreement against Trump against the network.
