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EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Men’s Gymnastics Team has only won golden erstwhile astatine nan Olympics – successful 1984. That infinitesimal of glory, coming aft nan U.S. boycott of nan 1980 games successful Moscow, is recaptured successful nan documentary ’84: The Summer of Gold.
The movie directed by 24-time Emmy-winner Nick Nanton is being presented astatine nan Marché du Film successful Cannes, pinch prospective buyers getting a first look astatine footage. ’84: The Summer of Gold is presently successful accumulation pinch an expected merchandise day successful summertime 2028, conscionable up of nan return of nan Olympic Games to Los Angeles, wherever they were held successful 1984.
The movie is being produced by Astonish Entertainment and DNA Films successful relation pinch Abundance Studios. It will see interviews pinch nan 5 surviving members of nan golden badge team: Bart Conner, Peter Vidmar, Mitch Gaylord, Tim Daggett, and Scott Johnson (their teammate Jim Hartung died earlier this twelvemonth aft a lengthy conflict pinch pharynx cancer).
“‘84: The Summer of Gold captures nan communicative of a squad that roseate from nan ashes of a stolen dream to reclaim their destiny,” notes a release. “Their travel began successful nan protector of nan 1980 Moscow Games boycott, a governmental maneuver that dashed nan Olympic hopes of an full generation. Four years later, these American athletes stepped onto nan world shape successful Los Angeles to conflict for their dreams and nan grant of their country, arsenic nan U.S. and Soviet Union remained locked successful conflict, pinch Russia retaliating pinch their ain boycott.”
The merchandise continues, “For nan first clip successful forty years, a documentary characteristic movie plunges audiences into nan high-stakes furnace of nan 1984 Games done never-before-seen photos, footage and interviews reminiscing backmost connected that unsocial clip successful U.S. and sports history. This is simply a visceral, front-row spot to an diversion revolution, weaving friendly legendary grounds pinch a vault of Olympic archival find that reveals nan raw, quality bosom of nan arena and nan definitive relationship of a enslaved that transformed world hostility successful nan astir profound ways.”
In a statement, head Nick Nanton said, “This is much than a sports story, it’s a infinitesimal successful history wherever perseverance, politics, and Olympic pridefulness collided. After missing their chance successful 1980, this squad carried nan weight of a federation into Los Angeles and achieved thing nary American men’s gymnastics squad has done earlier aliases since. As we return to LA for nan 2028 Games, it feels meaningful and important to revive this team’s communicative arsenic a reminder to those who watched it, and arsenic an inspiration to a procreation that didn’t.”
Gold medalist Bart Conner commented, “This squad wasn’t conscionable competing for a medal, we were carrying 4 years of heartbreak, sacrifice, and unfinished dreams into Los Angeles. What we accomplished together still feels surreal, and I’m grateful this movie will seizure not conscionable nan victory, but nan travel and brotherhood that made it possible.”
LHC, nan PR, trading and branding firm, which acts arsenic a distribution liaison for prime films, is helping to bring nan task successful beforehand of imaginable buyers successful nan Cannes Market.
Producers of ‘84: The Summer of Gold see Julie Meates, Wayne Pernell, Charlie Epstein, Ryan Chute, Kathleen Forrest, Craig Lack, Peter D’Arruda, Gary Marriage Jr., Paul Peters, George McCranie , Francis X. Astorino, Richard Tyler, Bryan Gallinger, Kerin Cagle, Gwen Medved, Ray Seggern, Suzanne Nakano, Camilo R. Gomez, Dana Cowles, Cathy Cooper, Shaun Capps, Geoff Green, Dorothy Fischer, Elizabeth S. Jackson, and Edward Mafoud.
Executive producers see Kimberly Ku, Michael Lockwood, Michael Fomkin, Mike Conlon and Kevin Hodes.
