The creators and stars of HBO’s ‘Winning Time’ about the legendary showtime-era Lakers reveal the behind-the-scenes drama — from crazy castings to NBA hostility
It was Easter Sunday, back in 2014, when Jim Hecht, a down-on-his-luck screenwriter, arrived at Jeff Pearlman’s door. He needed desperately to catch a break and had just flown 3,000 miles hoping one would come in the form of television rights to Pearlman’s latest best-seller,. His pitch was simple: He wanted to makeabout the 1980s Lakers.
“I had no money, so if he’d been like, ‘$30,000,’ I would’ve been screwed,” recalls Hecht, whose résumé — then almost exclusively “talking animal movies” — offered little to convince anyone he was the guy for the job. But Pearlman’s own expectations were swirling somewhere in the basement. “By the time Jim came along, I’d probably had books of mine optioned 10 times,” says Pearlman, “and nothing ever happened.
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