NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Director Peter Landesman insists neither he nor Sony Pictures changed the sports-injury drama Concussion because they feared the wrath of the National Football League.
Set for theatrical release Dec. 25, the film is based on the GQ magazine article "Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas. Will Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, who studies the brains of ex-professional football players and discovers they are suffering from a neuro-degenerative disease caused by repeated trauma to the head.