Some dude actually a made a film about Ryan Leaf…and is showing it for free in San Diego.
We all have times in our lives we’d like to forget. But for San Diego Chargers fans who show up at the San Diego Library on Wednesday night, the Ryan Leaf era can be relived on the big screen — for free.
“Leaf,” an 82-minute film about the former Chargers quarterback — a “can’t-miss” prospect whose short NFL career turned into a disaster — will be shown at a free screening on Wednesday night at the San Diego Library.
“I insisted it be free for all the Chargers fans because it’s their story,” writer and director Tim Carr said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “I was like, ‘Chargers fans have been through enough — let them have this.'”
Carr, who plays Leaf in the film, appeared in “Rocky Balboa” and has written and directed two other films. He said he was interested in making a sports movie in the style of Woody Allen’s “Husbands and Wives” — a documentary within a movie — but “didn’t want to do a ‘Rudy’-type movie,” according to the report.
Leaf does not appear in the film. Carr said he had a couple of phone conversations with Leaf about the movie and was hoping he would agree to a cameo appearance, but explained that their talks “got progressively less cordial,” according to the report.
Their talks got “progressively less cordial”? Well now, doesn’t that sound like the Ryan Leaf we’ve all come to know and love.
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