Showtime To Screen New Sonny Liston Doc

To whet your appetite for the Showtime debut of a new documentary on Sonny Liston, the glowering enigma of a man, the author of the book the flick is based on will appear on Everlast “Talkbox.”

Shaun Assael, formerly of ESPN the Magazine, will be on the podcast Tuesday, Nov. 5, to talk about the doc, and how the film and his book, “The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, heroin, and Heavyweights” aligned with or departed from the documentary handling of the subject.

Here is a release Showtime put out for the documentary, which drops to cable on Nov. 15:

NEW YORK – October 25, 2019 – SHOWTIME Sports has released the official trailer and key art for the upcoming documentary film PARIAH: THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF SONNY LISTON, premiering Friday, November 15 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Written and directed by Simon George and told through original conversations with luminaries, historians and some of Liston’s closest friends and family, PARIAH chronicles the rise and precipitous fall of one of the most vilified and misunderstood sports champions of all time.

Developed from Shaun Assael’s investigative book The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights, PARIAH features exclusive conversations with Mike Tyson, boxing historians Nigel Collins, Jerry Izenberg, Bob Lipsyte, Don Majeski and Assael.

PARIAH: THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF SONNY LISTON is executive produced by Louise Norman, Adam Hawkins and Dimitri Doganis. It is the latest in a series of unscripted programming from SHOWTIME Sports Documentary Films that spotlights culturally relevant subject matter in the world of sports. Additional titles in the lineup include the 2017 Sports Emmy^® Award-winning DISGRACED, the multi-part series SHUT UP AND DRIBBLE, 100%: JULIAN EDELMAN and QUIET STORM: THE RON ARTEST STORY.