Watch the new trailer for Will Smith’s new movie ‘Concussion’
“You’re going to war with a corporation that owns a day of the week.”
On Monday, Sony Pictures gave Sports Illustrated’s Peter King an exclusive look at Concussion, a movie about Dr. Bennet Omalu, the man largely responsible for discovering CTE. The Nigerian-born doctor ultimately made his discovery about brain injuries after performing an autopsy on Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mike Webster.
Peter King spoke with director Peter Landesman, about why he made the movie and his opinion on the NFL. Landesman, argues he is telling a stroy but does not “feel responsible or connected to the consequences.”
I have no position on whether or not people should play football or whether they should have their kids play football. To me, this is a story about making adult choices. Once you have the information—and the information has been obscured for a long time, it’s been buried and covered up by people who don’t want to damage the sport—the information is now out there and I hope this movie brings together the information in a way that the general public can metabolize and now make their own decisions.
Concussion features Will Smith and hits theaters on Christmas 2015.
