#217: Making the Wilt Chamberlain documentary

Thinking Basketball

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4.8 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Directors of the new documentary “Goliath,” Christopher Dillon and Rob Ford, join to discuss the making of the film, Wilt the player and person, what they learned and more. GOLIATH is streaming now on Paramount plus with Showtime. Support atwww.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:01.0	Thank you.
0:02.0	Thank you.
0:03.0	Basketball Podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back.
0:11.0	To another show, today is to another show.
0:12.5	Today is a special one.
0:14.2	It's a little different.
0:15.9	I get to wear my James Lipton hat
0:19.1	and probe filmmakers about their process. We're gonna talk about the their process. We're going to talk about the making of a
0:27.0	documentary, a little basketball documentary called Goliath
0:30.0	about Will Chamberlain, which is streaming now on Paramount Plus with Showtime.
0:36.3	As some of you know, I appear in the film, I mean we'll have to talk about this today I appear in the film a little too much I'm in it
0:46.3	quite a bit the directors of this, Rob Ford and Chris Dylan.
0:55.0	How are you guys doing?
0:56.0	Great.
0:57.0	Having this, yeah.
0:58.0	Thanks so much for coming on.
1:00.0	We have a lot to get to, but I just am really curious before we begin where did this
1:06.9	project come from how did it start what was what was the motivation behind it I mean we're going to get into basketball but just where
1:15.3	where does something like this germinate? Yeah I think there have been various parties trying to make this
1:21.6	documentary for a long time and unfortunately or
1:27.1	fortunately for us it just hasn't worked out primarily because of the family and the estate,
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