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Josh Andrés Rivera will take the field as Aaron Hernandez.
According to a series description, this athletic anthology will re-examine a “prominent event” involving a sports figure “through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives.” Even when the show paused shooting amid the SAG-AFTRA strike, new details about casting, plot, and production continued to trickle in. Producer Nina Jacobson told IndieWire that Rivera, who starred in the West Side Story remake and the upcoming Hunger Games prequel movie, rose “to the top” during the casting process. In January 2023, Deadline reported that FX chairman John Landgraf said that American Sports Story had “fairly complete” scripts and was “heading toward production.” Principal photography began in April 2023, but production later paused due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
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