Official Trailer for Sports Doc ‘The Lionheart’ About a Racing Family
by Alex Billington
February 27, 2024
Source: YouTube
“Racing has taken from me the most important thing in my life… but it’s also given me so much.” HBO has revealed an official trailer for a new sports documentary film titled The Lionheart, a story about a racing family, coming to Max and HBO this March. The film first premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival last year, with a stop at the Heartland Film Festival. The doc is about Dan Wheldon – a two-time Indianapolis 500 champion, dies on the track in 2011, shocking the world of motorsports to its very core. Ten years later, his sons Sebastian and Oliver Wheldon continue their father’s practice. As their mother Susie grapples with her grief and the responsibility of raising their sons alone, the two boys, ages 12 & 10, take on their father’s mantle and enter the world of professional racing. As an epic sports story unfolds within the ongoing inter-generational family drama, this explores Susie’s dilemma as a mother who questions whether her family’s lineage is a blessing or a burden while watching her sons, with the high-risk sport deeply embedded in their DNA, try to reconcile their father’s absence by embracing the very sport that took him from them. Drive on.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Laura Brownson’s doc The Lionheart, direct from YouTube:
In 2011, the two-time Indianapolis 500 champion Dan Wheldon, nicknamed “The Lionheart,” died in a horrific crash at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, shaking the world of motorsports to its core. Ten years later, Dan’s two sons, Sebastian and Oliver, follow in their father’s footsteps as they work through their loss the only way they know how – getting behind the wheel to race. The Lionheart documenary blends archival footage with vérité storytelling to weave together two distinct narratives: Dan’s storied career in the past and the present day lives of Dan’s widow Susie and sons Sebastian & Oliver. The Lionheart is directed by American doc producer / filmmaker Laura Brownson, director of the doc films Lemon, The Rachel Divide, and The House Band previously. It’s produced by Laura Brownson, Chapman Way, Maclain Way, and Carolyn Craddock. This originally premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival last year. HBO will debut The Lionheart doc streaming on Max starting March 12th, 2024 coming soon. Anyone interested?