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Ever since its first episode aired a few weeks ago, The Last Dance has been an absolute slam dunk at ESPN, especially with the lack of live sports programming and increase in streaming. The Michael Jordan documentary series has received glowing reviews, but one filmmaker is not among the mass of adoring fans. The Hollywood Reporter reports that in an interview with the Wall Street Journal yesterday, documentary producer Ken Burns criticized The Last Dance and said he has not watched the popular series.
Burns told the paper that he took issue with the involvement of Jordan’s production company, Jump 23, as a partner in the documentary series, seemingly questioning how the project can be honest to history and unbiased if the subject is involved in the filmmaking. Burns said he would “never, never, never, never” agree to the same terms with one of his own films.
“I find it the opposite direction of where we need to be going,” Burns told the Wall Street Journal. “If you are there influencing the very fact of it getting made, it means that certain aspects that you don’t necessarily want in aren’t going to be in, period.”
“And that’s not the way you do good journalism,” Burns added. “And it’s certainly not the way you do good history, my business.”
Burns most recently made Country Music in 2019, and has multiple films slated for release in 2021, including Ernest Hemingway, Ali and The Holocaust and the United States, all of which are currently in production. He confirmed to the WSJ that he’s working on his documentaries while in quarantine.
The Last Dance airs two episodes per week, and recently released Episodes 3 and 4 on ESPN last Sunday (April 26). Watch Episodes 5 and 6 of The Last Dance on ESPN this Sunday (May 3) at 9/8c.
