Matt Damon will narrate a new Boston Marathon documentary
The film is being produced in partnership with the Boston Athletic Association.
A new documentary examining the 120-year history of the Boston Marathon will feature a famous narrator with local ties: Matt Damon.
Damon will lend his voice to Boston, directed by filmmaker/marathoner Jon Dunham and produced in partnership with the Boston Athletic Association.
Damon, whose brother, Kyle, and father, Kent, have each run the Boston Marathon four times, explained the Marathon’s importance to him in the foreword to 2013’s The B.A.A. at 125: The Official History of The Boston Athletic Association 1887-2012 (Sports Publishing), a book by runner and author John Hanc.
“Some of my most vivid childhood sports memories took form in the early 1980s at Fenway Park, the Boston Garden, and by the side of the road near the fire station on Commonwealth Avenue in Newton,” Damon wrote in the book. “I’ll never forget standing there in the crowd with my brother, Kyle, as we looked first for Bill Rodgers, and then, in the very same race as some of the most talented runners on earth, our smiling (and grimacing) 40-year-old dad.”
Boston‘s world premiere is set for April 15 at the Boch Center Wang Theatre, and will include a live performance of the film’s score by Emmy Award-winning conductor Jeff Beal and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra.
For those who won’t be attending the premiere (which still has tickets available on the theater’s website), Fathom Events will show the film for one night only on Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. local time, at more than 500 theaters nationwide. To see a list of area theaters playing Boston and to buy tickets to a screening, visit Fathom’s website.
