Former USC football great Ryan Kalil has done what a lot of elite athletes fail to do: Figure out the career plan and path after one’s playing days are over.
In this article from Fast Company, Kalil’s foray into Hollywood is documented.
Kalil and NBA star Blake Griffin co-founded the production house Mortal Media several years ago and are turning out one project after another.
From the article:
“In Kalil’s case, the love for film started with Star Wars—more specifically, the ‘behind-the-scenes’ material that appeared on the Star Wars VHS tapes. ‘I remember seeing a lot of the Phil Tippett animation and just being so enamored with it,’ he said.
“Phil Tippett, for the record, is the stop-motion pioneer behind Robocop, Piranha, and, yes, Star Wars. The exact kind of guy, in other words, that only a film geek would name-drop.”
Mortal Media has recently produced programs which have been (or are going to be) distributed to Hulu, Disney, Fox, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Apple TV.
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