FX is peeling back the curtain on American Sports Story, which is set to debut next month and will first follow the story of the troubled late NFL star Aaron Hernandez. Watch the first trailer above.
The trailer features Josh Rivera as the infamous tight end, charting his football career all the way back to high school, through his time at the University of Florida and on to his three seasons with Tom Brady’s New England Patriots including a Super Bowl appearance before he was arrested and convicted for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.
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But, as Hernandez charts a meteoric path on the field, his life off the field becomes more unstable. At one point in the trailer, he’s told by someone at a 2010 combine: “Nobody’s questioning your athletic ability, Aaron. They’re questioning your character.”
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The first installment of American Sports Story is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. from The Boston Globe and Wondery. The limited series charts Hernandez’s rise and fall and explores the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his 2017 suicide at 27 and their legacy in sports and American culture. It premieres September 17.
The series also stars Jaylen Barron, Lindsay Mendez, Ean Castellanos, Tammy Blanchard, Tony Yazbeck, Thomas Sadoski, Jake Cannavale, Patrick Schwarzenegger as Tim Tebow and Norbert Leo Butz as legendary Patriots coach Bill Belichick.
American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez is executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Stuart Zicherman, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson and Carl Franklin. Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy of Wondery also serve as executive producers alongside Linda Pizzuti Henry and Ira Napoliello of The Boston Globe. The series is produced by 20th Television.