Will smith nfl movie trailer
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Roger Goodell is due in federal court on Monday to continue his seven-month fight to take down Tom Brady in the "Deflategate" scandal. But that may not be the biggest problem facing the NFL commissioner on Monday, CBS Boston reports.
Sony Pictures released its trailer for the upcoming film "Concussion."
The trailer, released via Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback, depicts the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Pittsburgh doctor who had to fight through the juggernaut NFL in order to share the discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) -- a condition in the brain which Omalu determined came from repeated trauma to the head.
Will Smith portrays Dr. Omalu in the film.
The film already had the attention of the owners back in July, when they reportedly spent significant time at their May meeting discussing how to deal with and respond to the movie 'Concussion.'
The NFL had a long history of denying any link between repeated blows to the head and the development of CTE, thoug
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Watch: Final trailer for Will Smith&#;s sports biopic Concussion reeks of Oscar potential
From now until the end of , we're going to be seeing a lot more films like Concussion drop into the cinema.
In short, they're films that have a weighty story with one or two top-line actors and a few well-known supporting actors in between. Most likely they're based on a true story, one that people are either reasonably familiar with or knew absolutely nothing about.
With Concussion, it's a story that a lot of people know about in the US but almost nobody knows on this side of the world. Based on the true story of Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith), a Nigerian forensic pathologist who reported on severe head injuries incurred by NFL players in the late '90s. The story rocked the idrott to its foundations and changed standards and practices in NFL to this day.
The film's released in the mittpunkt of Oscar season, so it's klar they're aiming for that neck of the woods. It's got the credentials, t
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'Concussion': New Trailer Further Reveals Will Smith's Battle Against the NFL
It's been a rough couple of years for the NFL, not that you'd really notice it from the continued fandom for football. Not only has Roger Goodell's tenure as the head of the organization been tremendously disastrous, but there's been a spike in attention toward the very real physical damage that players go through on the field. That's where Concussion, the latest drama from Peter Landesman, comes in, telling the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith), the forensic neuropathologist who first started snooping around the damage that tackles and sacks do to players, and ended up bringing his findings to the public's attention. And now we have the latest trailer for the film.
Check out the latest trailer for Concussion below:
The most notable thing about this latest trailer is the inclusion of footage of David Morse, who plays Mike Webster, a player for the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh