EXCLUSIVE: Dogwoof and Customer Media are scorching on the path of Ryan Wedding ceremony, the ex-Olympic snowboarder turned FBI most-wanted fugitive.
Dogwoof, the doc specialist primarily based in London, and Toronto-based Customer are partnering with Rolling Stone Movies, the CBC, and La Corriente del Golfo on the event of Snow King: From Olympian to Narco, a docuseries on Wedding ceremony’s alleged swap from descending Olympic slopes to mountains of cocaine.
“The collection, which pulls from the great investigative reporting of Rolling Stone and the Toronto Star, charts the astonishing journey of Ryan Wedding ceremony – a former Olympic snowboarder who’s now one of many FBI’s Ten Most Needed fugitives, accused of operating a violent, billion-dollar drug empire for Mexico’s most infamous cartel,” notes a launch. “The verité-driven documentary collection takes viewers contained in the hunt to uncover how Wedding ceremony remodeled from nationwide hero to alleged cartel boss and worldwide fugitive.”
FBI Most Needed poster for Ryan Wedding ceremony
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The FBI added Wedding ceremony to its 10 Most Needed checklist final week, accusing him of “allegedly operating a transnational drug trafficking community that routinely shipped tons of of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, by way of Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and different areas in the US, and for orchestrating a number of murders and an tried homicide in furtherance of those drug crimes.” The U.S. State Division is providing a $10 million reward for Wedding ceremony’s seize and conviction, including to a $50,000 reward from the FBI.
Rolling Stone journalist Jesse Hyde in Sinaloa, Mexico
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Filming of the docuseries started in January within the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with the manufacturing group working alongside journalists and investigators, amongst them Rolling Stone’s Jesse Hyde, the Toronto Star’s Calvi Leon and operatives in Mexico, in addition to present and former FBI brokers and legislation enforcement officers. “Collectively, they hint Ryan Wedding ceremony’s stunning transformation from Canadian snowboarding prodigy into alleged drug kingpin,” the discharge states. “Because the hunt for Wedding ceremony escalates, Snow King incorporates firsthand accounts from the individuals whose lives have been irrevocably modified by the crimes he and his co-conspirators have been charged with, making a visceral, story-driven portrait of the worldwide drug commerce – and its devastating human prices.”
Dogwoof senior improvement government Nico Wasserman initially developed the mission and serves as government producer. Dogwoof CEO Anna Godas and Customer Media President Sean O’Neill are producers. The mission is the primary in a multi-year improvement partnership between Dogwoof and Customer Media, shaped following the success of the 2024 documentary characteristic and CBC collection Swan Music.
“Once we first got here throughout the story final 12 months, we immediately knew it may turn into an unimaginable collection that elevates the true crime style by going deeper into what drives individuals to make sure decisions, very like Breaking Unhealthy,” commented Dogwoof’s Godas. “I additionally knew Sean O’Neill was the proper particular person to develop this with as he’s actually aligned to Dogwoof’s style and ethos, and we had an incredible expertise with Swan Music.”
“This story is epic in scope, with stunning turns and devastating impacts,” added Customer’s Sean O’Neill. “I’m thrilled to collaborate with Dogwoof, the CBC and our extraordinary companions at Rolling Stone and La Corriente del Golfo to create a collection that’s as cinematically very important and thematically wealthy as it’s propulsive and engrossing to observe.”
Along with Dogwoof’s Nico Wasserman, government producers of Snow King embrace Rolling Stone CEO Gus Wenner, Rolling Stone Movies SVP Jason High quality, journalist Jesse Hyde and La Corriente del Golfo’s Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna. For CBC, Sally Catto is normal supervisor of Leisure, Factual, & Sports activities; Jennifer Dettman is government director, Unscripted Content material; Sandra Kleinfeld is senior director, Documentary; and Michelle McCree is government in command of manufacturing, CBC Docs.
U.S. Lawyer Martin Estrada, subsequent to piles of proof, proclaims a superseding indictment in opposition to Ryan Wedding ceremony for alleged transnational drug trafficking
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“For greater than a decade, Rolling Stone has been monitoring the saga of Ryan Wedding ceremony,” famous Jason High quality of Rolling Stone Movies. “We’re thrilled to companion with this unimaginable group to delve deeper and produce to display screen this sensational story on the intersection of sports activities and crime.”
The CBC’s Jennifer Dettman mentioned, “Snow King will supply essential insights right into a stranger-than-fiction Canadian story that can little question seize the eye of audiences throughout the nation and world wide. We look ahead to working with our latest Swan Music companions Dogwoof and Customer Media to convey this unbelievable private journey to the display screen.”
Ryan Wedding ceremony of Canada competes within the 2002 Winter Olympics in Park Metropolis, Utah
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Wedding ceremony, 43, a local of Thunder Bay, Ontario, represented Canada on the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake Metropolis. Authorities consider he could also be hiding out in Mexico however haven’t dominated out different areas of North America or Central America. The 6’3”, 240-lb. ex-athlete goes by a number of aliases, in accordance with the FBI, together with El Jefe, Public Enemy, James Conrad King, Jesse King, and Large – the latter sobriquet presumably referring to the Olympic occasion by which he competed, Large Slalom.
Exhibiting a aptitude for flip of phrase, Akil Davis, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles Subject Workplace, mentioned, “Wedding ceremony went from shredding powder on the slopes on the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine on the streets of U.S. cities and in his native Canada. The alleged murders of his opponents make Wedding ceremony a really harmful man.”
If apprehended and convicted, Wedding ceremony faces a compulsory minimal penalty of life in federal jail – simply on the cost of operating a legal enterprise. He would face further penalties if convicted of homicide, tried homicide and drug trafficking.
No goal launch date for the Snow King docuseries has been introduced.
