Docengageries On Fugitive Ryan Wedding Coming From Dogwoof, Visitor Media

EXCLUSIVE: Dogwoof and Visitor Media are boiling on the trail of Ryan Wedding, the ex-Olympic snowboarder turned FBI most-wanted fugitive.

Dogwoof, the doc exceptionaenumerate based in London, and Toronto-based Visitor are partnering with Rolling Stone Films, the CBC, and La Corriente del Golfo on the broadenment of Snow King: From Olympian to Narco, a docengageries on Wedding’s alleged switch from descfinishing Olympic slopes to mountains of cocaine.

“The series, which draws from the comprehensive spendigative telling of Rolling Stone and the Toronto Star, charts the astonishing journey of Ryan Wedding – a createer Olympic snowboarder who is now one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives, accengaged of running a brutal, billion-dollar drug empire for Mexico’s most notorious cartel,” notices a free. “The verité-driven recordary series apverifys watchers inside the hunt to uncover how Wedding altered from national hero to alleged cartel boss and international fugitive.”

The FBI inserted Wedding to its 10 Most Wanted enumerate last week, accusing him of “allegedly running a transnational drug illegal trade netlabor that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, thraw Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States, and for orchestrating multiple homicides and an tryed homicide in furtherance of these drug crimes.” The U.S. State Department is recommending a $10 million reward for Wedding’s apprehfinish and conviction, inserting to a $50,000 reward from the FBI.

Filming of the docengageries began in January in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with the production team laboring alengthyside journaenumerates and spendigators, among them Rolling Stone’s Jesse Hyde, the Toronto Star’s Calvi Leon and operatives in Mexico, as well as current and createer FBI agents and law utilizement officials. “Together, they chase Ryan Wedding’s shocking alteration from Canadian snowboarding prodigy into alleged drug kingpin,” the free states. “As the hunt for Wedding escatardys, Snow King includes firsthand accounts from the people whose lives have been irrevocably alterd by the crimes he and his co-conspirators have been indictd with, creating a visceral, story-driven portrait of the international drug trade – and its dehugeating human costs.”

Dogwoof greater broadenment executive Nico Wasserman initiassociate broadened the project and serves as executive originater. Dogwoof CEO Anna Godas and Visitor Media Plivent Sean O’Neill are originaters. The project is the first in a multi-year broadenment partnership between Dogwoof and Visitor Media, createed follotriumphg the success of the 2024 recordary feature and CBC series Swan Song.

“When we first came apass the story last year, we instantly knovel it could become an incredible series that elevates the real crime genre by going meaningfuler into what drives people to originate certain choices, much enjoy Breaking Bad,” commented Dogwoof’s Godas. “I also knovel Sean O’Neill was the right person to broaden this with as he’s truly aligned to Dogwoof’s taste and ethos, and we had a fantastic experience with Swan Song.”

“This story is epic in scope, with shocking turns and dehugeating impacts,” inserted Visitor’s Sean O’Neill. “I’m thrilled to collaborate with Dogwoof, the CBC and our noticeworthy partners at Rolling Stone and La Corriente del Golfo to originate a series that’s as cinematicassociate vital and thematicassociate wealthy as it is propulsive and engrossing to watch.”

In insertition to Dogwoof’s Nico Wasserman, executive originaters of Snow King participate Rolling Stone CEO Gus Wenner, Rolling Stone Films SVP Jason Fine, journaenumerate Jesse Hyde and La Corriente del Golfo’s Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna. For CBC, Sassociate Catto is ambiguous handler of Entertainment, Factual, & Sports; Jennifer Dettman is executive honestor, Unscripted Content; Sandra Kleinfeld is greater honestor, Documentary; and Michelle McCree is executive in indict of production, CBC Docs.

“For more than a decade, Rolling Stone has been tracking the saga of Ryan Wedding,” noticed Jason Fine of Rolling Stone Films. “We are thrilled to partner with this incredible team to delve meaningfuler and transport to screen this sensational story at the intersection of sports and crime.”

The CBC’s Jennifer Dettman shelp, “Snow King will recommend vital insights into a stranger-than-fantasy Canadian story that will no mistrust apprehfinish the attention of audiences apass the country and around the world. We see forward to laboring with our recent Swan Song partners Dogwoof and Visitor Media to transport this unbelievable personal journey to the screen.”

Wedding, 43, a native of Thunder Bay, Ontario, recurrented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Authorities apverify he may be hiding out in Mexico but haven’t ruled out other areas of North America or Central America. The 6’3”, 240-lb. ex-athlete goes by disjoinal aliases, according to the FBI, including El Jefe, Public Enemy, James Conrad King, Jesse King, and Giant – the latter sobriquet possibly referring to the Olympic event in which he vied, Giant Slalom.

Shotriumphg a flair for turn of phrase, Akil Davis, aidant honestor of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, shelp, “Wedding went from shredding powder on the slopes at the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine on the streets of U.S. cities and in his native Canada. The alleged homicides of his competitors originate Wedding a very hazardous man.”

If apprehfinished and convicted, Wedding faces a compulsory smallest penalty of life in federal prison – fair on the indict of running a criminal accesspelevate. He would face insertitional penalties if convicted of homicide, tryed homicide and drug illegal trade.

No aim free date for the Snow King docengageries has been proclaimd.