To help de-age the legendary football star, VFX studio Digital Domain deployed its proprietary Charlatan advanced visual effects systems. To help promote the return of the series, NBCUniversal commissioned several original trailers highlighting the time travel/body-swapping nature of the story, including one that features Hall of Fame quarterback and ‘80s icon Joe Montana in his prime. The first two episodes of “Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure” will premiere on Peacock on January 6th with new episodes premiering weekly.Nearly 30 years after leaving the air, the classic series Quantum Leap returns with an all-new cast and all-new adventures. What about this? What about that? With this, if something happens to me, they’ll always have something to look back on. I get questions from them all the time about when I was younger. They know they went to games and know they were there but they don’t have memories of it because they were just too young. It’s probably more for my kids than anything. Were your children one of the reasons you wanted to do the series? It’s also fun to watch my kids explain things and get their takes on some of the things that happened. Seeing them in there and getting their take on some of the things that took place, especially my mom. But looking backward … Both my mom and dad have passed. For me, going back to that was the most enjoyable part. Some of the footage from when I was young was refreshing to see. I think you forget a lot of the stories and a lot of things that took place early on in life. What was the best part of doing something like this for you? I still look back and go, “Am I sure I want to do this?” I still always question that because it doesn’t fit into what I would normally do or say. They explained to me why they thought I should do it. It’s not something I would have done had it not been sparked by someone else’s interest. It had to be brought up to me to think about doing it. There are some surprises in there, especially in the later parts of my career, that I haven’t spoken about. There are a couple of things I think people will be surprised at while I was in San Francisco that come up. I didn’t realize that.” Injuries, getting in and out of games, why I wasn’t playing and what went on on the inside. I think there are things in there that will make people will say “Wow. There’s footage from when I was a kid that no one has seen. All the ups and downs throughout my career, whether it was high school or college, with coaches. No, but I think there are a lot of things in there that’ll be surprising. Was there a particular story that made you want to do the series? It’s just telling a story about my life in football. So, we decided to get it down while we could. Who knows what my memory will be like in another few years, after I don’t know how many concussions? It felt like the right time to do something if there was an interest in getting it done. Joe Montana: We’ve been talking about doing this for some time and things just start to work out. I nsideHook: How did you decide it was time to tell some of the untold stories of your playing days? He could have just made the catch.”īelow, we asked one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever sling it why now was the right time to pull back the curtain on his football life. “I used to say it should be called The Throw, not the Catch … He made it look so dramatic. I think it probably was a good throw,” Montana tells InsideHook. “The Catch was just getting it up and down fast enough with the guys in front of me with their hands up. Known simply as The Catch, that play at Candlestick Park will be celebrating its 40th anniversary on January 10, just days after a new six-part sports docuseries, Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure, premieres on Peacock. None comes to mind faster and more vividly than San Francisco quarterback Joe Montana hitting wide receiver Dwight Clark in the back of the end zone with a six-yard touchdown pass that enabled the 49ers to escape the 1981 NFC Championship Game with a 28–27 win over the Dallas Cowboys. From the Immaculate Reception to the Music City Miracle to the Butt Fumble, there are a number of historic NFL plays that immediately conjure up a highlight-reel image in the memory (and have their own Wikipedia page).
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