Meet the directors of 'Meal Ticket,' McDonald's All-American Game documentary
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When you get that invite to play in that game, you tell yourself the first thing, I'm going to the league.
And I'm sicking the whole backboard. I was a different kind of beast, man. Wow, I'm going to be on national TV, man. We got to put on a show.
There you heard Jalen Rose, Amari Stoudemire, Alonzo Mourning, all in the trailer for Meal Ticket, a documentary about the nearly 50-year history of the McDonald's All-American High School basketball games. It's available to stream now on Prime Video, and we are thrilled to be joined here on Rahimi Harris and Grody on 104.3, the score by Corey Colvin and Carlton Gerrard Sabs. who were the co-directors of Mill Ticket. And guys, we're so happy to have you here, Marshall Harris and Russ Dorsey here on The Score. Where did this even start? Where do you come up with the idea, hey, we're going to do a documentary on one of the most iconic things that happens in basketball?
Well, it started with we had the opportunity to work with two amazing directors, Cootie and Chique, as they were finishing up their documentary, Genius, on Kanye West. And while working with them, they took a liking to Carlton and I's style, hit us up a few weeks later and said, we might have an opportunity for you guys to be able to direct your first feature length film.
And so you get the go ahead to do this. How much of a challenge was this and how much fun was this getting all these interviews in?
What is the significance of the McDonald's All-American Game?
Oh, my goodness. A lot of fun. But the challenge was huge because, I mean, being sports fans growing up in Chicago, man, we were big sports fanatics and we understood what the McDonald's All-American game meant to sports, to basketball, and to the culture. And so when we got the opportunity to tell a story, you know, we're talking about big brands are involved. You've got Roc Nation is supporting us on the film. We had McDonald's, of course, and then we got the distributor with Amazon. So this is a lot of big, you know, stakeholders involved that we really had to make sure all came together to get the story out correctly. But once we hit the ground running, especially filming the legends, it was incredible.
You know, all the people we grew up watching, we got to finally like kind of connect in person and they all like, you know, they met the legacy properly of living up to what we always grew up knowing them to be.
Now, you guys, like myself, grew up in this city. You know what that game meant because you know all the high school stars that were coming to town, playing at the United Center, and those were the guys that you said, okay, these are going to be the dudes in college or in the NBA. Is there something going into this process where you thought you knew something about this game and what it meant, and then you found out something different of like, I didn't even think about that?
Yeah, I think... Anytime you're doing a documentary, Like you can plan, you can do all the research, but then you have those moments that you just discover. You turn over those rocks, you find those hidden gems. And you know, like Carlton, when we were going into it, Carlton's like, he's an Excel spreadsheet dude. So like Carlton will be sending all of his research, all of his database, just the number one player in this class, blah, blah, blah. And you know, like for the most part, those things stuck. But then once we get on the ground, especially in our hometown where we started in 2022, that class has so much fire in it, you know, and it was just a pleasure to be around all of them. You know, like we went into it focusing on what we felt were going to be like the two top students.
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