'The Boys in the Boat' trivia and fun facts
KENNETH BRANAGH, FIRST DIRECTOR
Kenneth Branagh was the original director of the movie before George Clooney was hired.
RETURN
This is George Clooney's first sports movie after 'Leatherheads'.
OWNED BY HARVEY WEINSTEIN
The Weinstein Company originally had the rights to a motion picture adaptation of 'The Boys in the Boat'. However, when the company went bankrupt following allegations of sexual misconduct by co-founder and producer Harvey Weinstein, all of its assets, including the rights to this film, were later sold to Lantern Entertainment, which then stuck a deal with MGM to co-produce the film. Lantern's position in the film was later transferred to its newly relaunched Spyglass Media Group with MGM's former chairman and CEO Gary Barber. The film was ultimately distributed in USA by Amazon MGM Studios, the new name of Amazon Studios (officially adopted in October 2023) following Amazon's acquisition of MGM in 2022.
CITY PREMIERE
'The Boys in the Boat' was first screened at the reopened SIFF Cinema Downtown in Seattle on December 7, 2023. The screening was attended by a number of students from Sequim, Washington, where Joe Rantz was from.
THOROUGH PREPARATION
The actors trained every day for five months.