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A Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention yesterday to the trailer for a documentary called Article 19, about events leading up to and immediately following SMU’s football program receiving the NCAA’s death penalty in February 1987. I recalled having read something about this back in December, when the Mustangs headed out to Hawaii, but nothing since. So I called Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas grad Mike Hughes out in L.A., where he’s been working in the film-production business for the past several years, to see what’s what with his life-after-death-penalty piece.
“Some things have happened — in a good way,” says Hughes, who’s making the doc with fellow Jesuit alum Thaddeus Matula, who’s directing. And then he proceeds to say those those things are … off the record. All he can say: “We’re re-shooting everything at this point.”
Suffice it to say, if all goes according to plan you’ll see it before year’s end. And, no, not as a straight-to-DVD release. The trailer, featuring a host of familiar faces, is well worth a look.
Update at 7:58 a.m. Thursday: I see DLP Entertainment has pulled the Article 19 trailer, which was available for four months, and 16 others overnight.
