FAYETTEVILLE — Marty Burlsworth remembers the day Brian Reindl came to Harrison to pitch his idea of making a movie about the life of Burlsworth’s late brother, Brandon.
It was 2005 and the Burlsworth family had already turned down multiple other overtures from filmmakers who wanted to make a similar movie, but would not allow the family to have say in how it portrayed Brandon, a walk-on-turned-All-America offensive lineman at Arkansas who died in a car crash 11 days after being drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in April 1999.
“My question to each of those people who contacted us out of California was: What input would the family have in how he was depicted on screen?