The reason why it took so long to make the series was many people were impacted by COVID over the years, still even today. Holt said the four locations they wound up with weren’t even the ones initially considered. Edge of the Earth was one of them, and it was a bit of a culmination of everything TGR has done over its history and just a good blend and combination of all our expertise, doing a series that brings different groups of athletes out from different sports to go out and accomplish incredible feats.”īut while the pitch was well-received, actually getting this made was difficult, especially once COVID-19 began to impact production. “And then Steve, Todd, and myself went into HBO, because we had a really good relationship there with the producers and executives, so we went in and pitched them a handful of ideas. A couple years ago, we did the documentary Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season for HBO, so our relationship with HBO kind of started there.” Steve and Todd Jones, the directors on the project, have been doing this for quite a while now. “The company I work for, Teton Gravity Research, has been in the game since 1996. Holt said TGR initially pitched HBO on this several years ago, following their partnership for Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season. There’s an end-to-end storyline, there’s different groups of athletes, different objectives, and the variation of sport is very natural in that context, the different types of things these athletes are doing and bringing these elite athletes together.” We kind of think about it as a film series in that sense. And each of the episodes in this series too really kind of stands on its own as its own film, really. You don’t often see these types of things together. “But in terms of the variety of sport, I think it’s refreshing. We always say that Mother Nature is another character in the series.” I think across the board there is a standard throughline with the places they go to, the connection with Mother Nature. And in doing that, it’s incredibly inspiring and motivating. But they go and do it, and it’s really important, really impactful to them. “Ultimately at the core center of this series is this idea of these incredible humans, these elite athletes going and doing things you can’t imagine, things most humans wouldn’t even necessarily want to do. It’s a series featuring outdoor sports athletes in skiing/snowboarding, kayaking, mountain climbing, and surfing exploring some of the world’s most remote and most spectacular locations as AA’s Michael Grant wrote in our review, “This is as extreme as extreme sports get.” Ahead of the series’ HBO premiere, producer Drew Holt of TGR spoke to AA about it, and said the series stands out by showing a wide variety of incredible locations, and these athletes’ interactions with nature in those locations. The HBO/Teton Gravity Research docuseries Edge of the Earth has its first episode of four premiere Tuesday night (9 ET/PT on HBO, also available to stream on HBO Max).
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