‘Untold’ Returns to Netflix With Documentaries on Raygun, Vince Young and Mr. T (Exclusive)

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Raygun, Vince Young and Mr. T: Your stories are untold no more. Untold, the excellent Netflix sports-documentary series from brothers Chapman Way and Maclain Way (Wild Wild Country, The Battered Bastards of Baseball), returns with three more standalone installments starting Aug. 25. The new volume kicks off with Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young, directed by John Henion. “After delivering one of the greatest performances in Rose Bowl history, Texas Longhorns legend Vince Young was the NFL’s next big thing, and for a while, he was,” the synopsis reads. “But a career riddled by injuries, conflict and sudden loss tells a far more complicated story than the highlight reels ever showed.” blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-article-mid-article-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article1","mid-articleX","mid","mid-article"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article") .addSize([[300,250],[2,2],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Related Stories TV No, Netflix Didn't Cut a Trump Joke From Whitney Cummings' Set at Mark Twain Prize Ceremony TV Here's Just How Top-Heavy Netflix Is Right Now Ross M. Dinerstein and Andrew Lloyd Bank produce the Vince Young film, which hails from Campfire Studios. The Way boys executive produce alongside Rebecca Evans, Ross Girard, John Henion, Howard Owens and Ben Silverman; Rafael Britto, Mark McCune and Allyson Holloway co-executive produce. The following week, we finally get the inside story of 2024 Paris Olympics breakdancer Raygun, who took the world by storm for all the wrong reasons. Chapman and Maclain decided to direct this one themselves. They’ll executive produce with Silverman, Owens, Johnny Lowry, Stephanie Scicchitano, Harry Gamsu and Ryan Duffy; Shuli Harel, Jake Graham-Felsen and Carolyn Craddock co-executive produce. Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly is produced by Stardust Frames Production and Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-mid-article2-uid1' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid","mid-article2","mid-articleX"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article2") .addSize([[300,250],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); “Nobody, least of all Rachael Gunn, expected to be an Olympian,” the synopsis reads. “But as Raygun’s performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics went viral overnight, so did an avalanche of memes, misinformation and conspiracy theories questioning how she ever got there.” Untold Mr. T: I Pity the Fool, directed by Scott Weintrob, wraps up the brief season on Sept. 8. “Before the gold chains, mohawk and Hollywood fame of The A-Team and Rocky III, there was Laurence Tureaud,” that one’s synopsis reads. “This is the extraordinary origin story behind one of the most unlikely and beloved icons in entertainment — Mr. T.” Weintrob, the Ways, Silverman and Owens executive produce, as do Steve Michaels, Ben Bitonti, Eden Sutley, Paul “Triple H” Levesque of WWE, Lee Fitting, Ben Houser and Marc Pomarico; Loren Gomez co-executive produce. Untold Mr. T: I Pity the Fool is produced by Studio Large Eyes, Pantheon Media Group and WWE Films.

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