Actor Melissa McCarthy and her husband, filmmaker Ben Falcone, were big fans of Ross and decided to produce a documentary about his life.
From the outset, the filmmakers found that very few people were willing to speak with them about Ross, for fear of litigation by the owners of his estate.
And because at the time Steve was so young, Bob thought, you know, let’s have an adult still guiding him with where he’s going to take this company.
Even as we’re having this discussion with you now, we’ve been kind of warned to keep to the basics, try not to get too into it because we will get sued.
And I think the filmmakers, Josh and Steven, really did a nice job of making kind of a complicated, balanced movie out of a character that is complicated.