ScoreG Productions and Super Channel have teamed up to release a new revealing three-part true-crime docuseries, Thunder: The Life and Death of Arturo Gatti, a chronicle of the original “blood and guts warrior” and his illustrious career with never-before-seen evidence surrounding his mysterious death.
Arturo Gatti is one of the most remarkable yet heartbreaking stories that need to be told in an episodic documentary series. From the Italian neighborhood of St. Leonard in Montréal to the boxing rings of New Jersey, and his enormous success in Atlantic City, Thunder celebrates the life of this legendary throwback fighter in all his guts and glory. Many called him a “throwback fighter” or an “old school gladiator”.
On July 11, 2009, while on vacation with his family in Brazil, Gatti was found dead in his hotel room of apparent suicide, at the age of 37. His wife, Amanda Rodriquez reportedly woke up to discover his body and repeatedly stated to police that she couldn’t have killed her husband.
“She is fragile, young and skinny — how could she kill a boxing champion?” Rodrigues’ attorney, Celio Avelino, told the Associated Press. “When she awoke, she presumed he had committed suicide. But she had nothing to do with it.”
But could she have killed him? Rodrigues was taken into custody the next day after police found blood on her purse. However, she was released later that month when Gatti’s death by asphyxiation was ruled a suicide. However, the boxing world and fans weren’t convinced. Did the World Boxing Hall of Fame boxer really commit suicide or was he murdered? That’s part of what the documentary Thunder: The Life and Death of Arturo Gatti, will explore.
This three-part true crime documentary series will finish production in early 2022 in partnership with Super Channel in Canada and looks to finally bring to the screen not only the credit Arturo Gatti deserves as a boxer who inspired so many but also a comprehensive and complete account of the circumstances around what many still feel to this day was a suspicious and untimely end.
This documentary series is written and directed by award-winning writer-director, Guillaume Carlier (Borrowed From Nature) of Kino Sum and produced by Alex Orlando (Histoires de Chars). The series is also produced by Adam Scorgie and Shane Fennessey of ScoreG Productions, who recently closed studio deals on the team’s last two documentary projects (Inmate#1: The Rise of Danny Trejo and Bisping). Upstream Flix represents the film’s worldwide sales and Pollyanna Hardwicke-Brown of Gruvpix Pictures will be editing and supervising post-production.
