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Sony Cut Goodell Scene From ‘Concussion’

DEFAMATION FEAR

Implicates the commissioner in a coverup.

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Sony cut a scene involving National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell from the upcoming movie Concussion, after concerns that it could lead to a defamation lawsuit. The scene implicates the commissioner in a coverup of the connection between football and brain damage. The director, Peter Landesman, alleges that the scene was based on a secondhand account, so he cut it from the film.

Read it at The Hollywood Reporter