Tom Brady is Becoming a Hollywood Mogul, Because of Course He Is

Remember when the end of Rob Gronkowski's football career began to feel like more of a possibility if not a foregone conclusion and there was speculation he'd end up going into acting? Well it's been a year and the Daniel Day Lewis phase of his career still hasn't begun as he's made playing the Gronk character his full time profession. And is doing exceptionally well at it.

Instead, it's Gronk's former teammate and best friend who's getting into motion pictures. Tom Brady is too big to simply be a movie star. So he's skipping right over that and going straight into the Hollywood Mogul business.

Source - Brady is launching 199 Productions, a global multi-platform content company to develop original premium content including documentaries, feature films and television shows. The company has quietly assembled a slate of development projects that include several with Brady on camera, in stories spanning sports, entertainment and health and wellness among others. 

First up: Brady has teamed up with "Avengers: Endgame" directors Joe & Anthony Russo and their AGBO Films’ non-fiction group, Wonderburst, to produce "Unseen Football." The feature is described as a fast-paced, incandescent big-screen 3D adventure documentary designed to take viewers into the invisible realms of football, guided by the most successful quarterback in NFL history. The docu will be a love letter to his sport and Brady will introduce innovative aspects of the game at every level – high school, college, NFL – isolating plays on screen and examining them from the cellular to the macro level. ...

Said the Russos: “Tom is one of the most successful, iconic and inspiring sports figures in history. We want to bring his story, and the story of the game he loves, to the big screen in a way that gives audiences an experience of football that they’ve never had before. As passionate fans of Tom, and the game, we’re thrilled to partner with and him and his amazing team on this special project.”

Capra. Wilder. Ford. Hitchcock. Kubrick. Coppolla. Lucas. Spielberg. Cameron. Tarantino. Nolan. And to their mighty company we can add the name Brady. Because the next great creator of expertly crafted, unique, timeless, award winning films with broad, multigenerational appeal has just planted his flag, right between the "Y" and the "W" in the Hollywood sign. 

And of course Brady would partner up with the Russo brothers. You don't go looking for collaborators at the bottom of the bottom of the box office barrel. You look to the men whose last two movies are the highest grossing ("Endgame") and fifth highest grossing ("Avengers: Infinity War") films of all time. But also huge critical successes, as well as having fan scores on Rotten Tomatoes in the 90s. Because you don't work with the best for 20 years only to start slumming now. 

So it turns out that "Tom vs. Time" was just the beginning. Like the Super 8 movies a young Stephen Spielberg used to make in his back yard. And that talent on display proved he was too good for mere Facebook documentaries. He's destined to take over the entertainment business the way he's dominated the football industry all these years. 

I can already see the lines forming outside the theaters for "Unseen Football." People sleeping in tents on the sidewalk weeks before the premiere. Entire families dressed up in Patriots 12 jerseys. Merchandise sales through the roof. McDonald's Happy Meals with "Unseen Football" toys for prizes. Movie nerds quoting all the lines to each other. Brady and the Russos taking the stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to accept 199 Production's Oscar for Best Movie Ever Made. 

Granted, it'll be a little challenging for Brady to run his Hollywood motion picture empire from Foxboro, where he will most definitely still be playing. And it'll be hard on Jared Goff and whoever is quarterbacking the Chargers to know that they're just the second and third best QBs in their own city every time he flies into town to check on production or accept another award. But art comes at a price. And those fast-paced, incandescent big-screen 3D adventure documentaries that take you into the invisible realms of football from the cellular to the macro level don't produce themselves. 

P.S. "199 Productions" is a diabolically brilliant name for his film company. I hope its sequence in the opening credits is like the one Marvel Studios uses, but with the face of every GM who passed on him.