{"id":89497,"date":"2025-08-17T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/89497\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:25:08","slug":"spike-lees-espn-documentary-on-colin-kaepernick-will-not-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/89497\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee’s ESPN documentary on Colin Kaepernick will not proceed"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN Films had commissioned Spike Lee to create an eight-part documentary regarding former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The series, however, will not be released.<\/p>\n

Via Reuters.com, both ESPN and Lee said on Saturday that the docuseries is dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cESPN, Colin Kaepernick and Spike Lee have collectively decided to no longer proceed with this project as a result of certain creative differences,\u201d ESPN said in a statement issued to Reuters.com on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Lee told Reuters.com on Friday that the plug had been pulled on the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not coming out,\u201d Lee said. \u201cThat\u2019s all I can say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee declined to provide any details.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI signed a nondisclosure [agreement]. I can\u2019t talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were indications last September of problems. Matt Belloni of Puck reported that there were \u201cheated disagreements<\/a> between Kaepernick [and Lee] over the direction of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, there can be no disagreements because there is no project. It\u2019s unknown how much of it had been filmed or who had been interviewed.<\/p>\n

Kaepernick created a national uproar nine years ago this month, after he was spotted sitting during the national anthem prior to a preseason game. He explained that he was not standing to protest the treatment of minorities by law enforcement. <\/p>\n

His NFL career ended after that season. He filed a collusion claim against the NFL. It settled without a full-blown hearing.<\/p>\n

After becoming a free agent in early 2017, Kaepernick received one visit (with the Seahawks that year), one workout (with the Raiders in 2022), and zero contract offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN Films had commissioned Spike Lee to create an eight-part documentary regarding former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-89497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}