EXCLUSIVE: SAS: Who Dares Wins and Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test instructor and writer Remi Adeleke has teamed with Emmy-winner Nick Nanton on Hero, a doc feature exploring perseverance and hope.
Nanton’s companies DNA Films and Abundance Studios are teaming to make the feature. Adeleke and Nanton previously partnered to develop Timothy Ballard’s book Slave Stealers: True Accounts Of Slave Rescues Then & Now as a TV series alongside Ballard, Brian Norton and screenwriter Cody Newton Gifford.
Hero will explore the concept of the hero’s journey through stories of perseverance, hope, and courage in the face of adversity.
It’s currently in post-production. Nanton is the director, with former Navy SEAL Adeleke producing. Nanton is known for films such as Disney+’s Dickie V, Netflix’s The Rebound and Prime Video’s Rudy Ruttiger: The Walk On.
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