RSA and More Better Sign Exclusive Enhanced Games Access Agreement

Ridley Scott Associates (RSA) and Rob McElhenney’s More Better Productions have signed an exclusive access agreement with the Enhanced Games to produce a documentary series about the attempt to set up the first sporting event in which enhancements, including doping, are permitted. 

RSA and More Better have exclusive access to the co-founders Aron D’Souza and Christian Angermayer, their team, and the unscripted rights to the Enhanced Games story and materials. The docuseries is being announced on the heels of RSA's ROBBIE WILLIAMS docuseries for Netflix, which hit the no.one spot in 22 countries globally, and McElhenney’s own FX series WELCOME TO WREXHAM, which earned five Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program; and earning the Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television.

Launched in response to what Aron and his partners view as a broken system, where cheating is too sophisticated to control, the new competition is set to become the most talked about sporting event of the century to date.

This series could not be more timely, as scientific enhancements grab headlines and are fast becoming one of the most talked about subjects in the public discourse. The ambition for the Enhanced Games is to capture the zeitgeist in a similar vein to the way Open AI brought Artificial Intelligence to the masses, operating at the vanguard of human enhancement.  

The moral ambiguity surrounding this event is the beating heart of the series. The tension underpinning the narrative is whether the Enhanced Games is ushering a new era of human excellence and sporting performance or encouraging potentially life-threatening practices in the name of healthy competition.

The series will be led by the human stories of those involved: embedding with the organisers attempting to set up a sporting event that is positioning itself as direct competition to the Olympic Games and a group of sportspeople preparing to openly take drugs and use cutting-edge science to enhance their performances in a bid to break world records. 

Dominic Crossley-Holland, RSA’s head of unscripted, said, “We are excited to tell the story of Enhanced Games; a noisy spin on the sports genre that poses provocative questions about morality, science, and the future of humanity. At RSA, we are known for pushing the bounds of storytelling and this project fits the mould, exploring the grey areas surrounding the convergence of technology and sport to enhance performance. The series asks, where is the line?”. 

Rob McElhenney of More Better Productions said, “More Better is honoured to partner with RSA to help tell the extraordinary story behind the Enhanced Games. From the moment we discovered this competition was in the works, we knew this deserved a deep exploration through a thoughtful docuseries lens.”

Aron D’Souza, president of the Enhanced Games, said, “It is only fitting that the story of the first sporting competition for the future should be told by the best documentary makers and sci-fi world-builders in the industry. We are thrilled to have RSA and More Better document our journey as we take the Enhanced Games from the seed of an idea to the biggest sporting enterprise in history, eventually becoming the Google of human enhancement.”