FAYETTEVILLE -- In 2017, the producers of EDDIE -- a documentary film on the life and career of Eddie Sutton -- sent an email to ESPN to see whether the sports network might want to air it once the project was completed.
"ESPN wasn't interested," said Christopher Hunt, the film's director and one of its producers. "They said it didn't move the needle internally for them."
Three years later, the needle has moved.
EDDIE will make its debut at 8 p.m. Monday on ESPN.
"Once ESPN saw the film, they changed their minds," said Wendy Garrett, a producer along with Hunt, David Tester and Takashi Entertainment.