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Jake Rogal: I work at an organization known as Phrases and Footage, and Connor Schell is the CEO of the corporate. So this factor had already been within the course of after I joined the corporate. And I met with Connor fairly early on, and he stated, “Hey there’s this doc probably behind the scenes on the Olympics with some basketball groups. We don’t fairly know who it’s but, however are you ?” I stated in fact, sounds superior.
So then it was so what groups, the USA, no brainer, as a result of they’re the workforce everybody’s attempting to beat, all of the superstars. France misplaced to the U.S. within the gold medal sport in Tokyo; they’re the house nation. They’ve Wemby; that’s just about a no brainer. Canada has just about probably the most NBA gamers in addition to the U.S. on the workforce. They’ve Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, top-of-the-line gamers within the NBA. They are often compelling. Additionally they don’t have lots of Olympic expertise in order that was a choice of their favor.
After which, the final workforce we waited some time as a result of we weren’t certain who we wished to go along with. Greece was floated on the market due to Giannis [Antetokounmpo]. However we actually wished to think about who may actually go far within the match, and Serbia had completed second on the World Cup. They’ve [Nikola] Jokic, clearly, a worldwide celebrity, and so they have an incredible nation historical past. Germany was floated on the market as a result of they received the World Cup, however in the end, the historical past of Serbia basketball put them excessive. So, they had been the fourth workforce.
Then it was a matter of getting all of the events concerned, which was FIBA, and the Olympics, USA Basketball. Be certain everybody’s on the identical web page. So that really went up all the way in which to proper earlier than we shot, which was the spring of 2024. We began taking pictures in June, so it was actually final minute, however lots of the legwork and getting the product off the bottom was executed earlier than I entered the image, however I watched all of the laborious work that went into it and noticed all of the events come collectively, which was undoubtedly difficult.
