Documentary filmmaker Michael Hamilton talks to Digital Trends about his new film, Bisping: The MichaelBisping Story.
Documentary filmmaker Michael Hamilton has been interested in profiling sports figures for nearly 20 years. From chronicling Alexander Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, and Eric Staal’s bumpy journey to the NHL to revealing the multifaceted and often misunderstood personality of track and field star Donovan Bailey, Hamilton is fascinated by the struggle of professional athletes to reconcile their heroic public images with their personal dilemmas.
Michael Hamilton: I’ve never done a story on a fighter before and was always kind of intrigued with that [UFC] space. I just think those guys are a different breed as people will tell in the Bisping film. What really cemented it with me was getting the chance to actually meet Michael [Bisping] before I signed off. The producers asked me to do it, and I was just kind of like, “I don’t know.” We met [Bisping] in Hollywood, and we sat down for like two and a half hours just talking about stories.
The 1976 film Rocky is brought up several times throughout the documentary. Was that intentional? I noticed that the climactic title match with Luke Rockhold closely paralleled Rocky’s fight with Apollo Creed. I don’t believe so. Everyone you see in [the] movie are friends of Bisping and they want to support him and they had a story to tell. [With] Vin Diesel, they worked together on xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. I think everyone that’s in the film was someone that we actually pursued, and I can’t recall anybody that we didn’t get that we wanted.
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