To connect the camera kinetically and emotionally to the players, the cinematographers utilized a secret weapon: the rollerblade camera.
Series co-creator Max Borenstein previews a more nuanced Larry Bird amid other future ideas.
The “Winning Time” star also offered new details about working with Martin Scorsese.
“People have said, ‘How can you tell the story of the Lakers without the Lakers themselves?’ And my answer to that is, ‘How could you tell it with them?'”
HBO maintains Adam McKay’s “Winning Time” is “not a documentary” amid criticisms of its real-life subjects.
The Adam McKay-produced series has been slammed by former Los Angeles Lakers coach and general manager Jerry West plus Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
“You took a happy and super successful Lakers era and turned it into a pulpy soap opera,” an attorney for West wrote in a letter to executive producer Adam McKay, HBO Max, and Warner Bros.-Discovery.
“I went on my Daniel Day-Lewis kind of thing because I wanted that tension,” Nixon explains about his big scene.
The filmmaker is nothing if not prolific, but he wouldn’t be able to make as much film and TV content without his right-hand man. Messick tells IndieWire how he gets it done.
Earvin “Magic” Johnson explained that without the Lakers participating, “Winning Time” could never truly capture the Showtime era.
The archival footage became a pop culture mixtape “from our collective memory.”
Covering the NBA team’s 1980s glory days, Max Borenstein’s series is mostly a nostalgia trip for fans, but finds its footing in vetting the cost of victory.
