Stephen Palgon on “Fantasyland”:  “I was instantly intrigued…” (Watch it Now, Free)

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Palgon talks about the project’s challenges and how he feels audiences will take to “Fantasyland.”

I think that we had a few challenges with “Fantasyland.” One of them of course was how to get Jed to be able to talk with his players. It wasn’t often easy to get Major League Baseball teams to buy into the concept of having Jed come on the field and talk to the players on his fantasy team. Another challenge was our main character, Jed Latkin. Jed was an amazing find for our film and a terrific character for us to follow, but he definitely lives on the extreme edge of Fantasyland. As Jed says “I try to fit life and work into fantasy baseball.” It is his his top priority. The challenge was that because Jed was so extreme he would do and say things that might turn off our audience and with Jed being the main character who we wanted to audience to ideally root for, we needed to make sure that they did not tune him out and abandoned his journey. The process of making this work came largely in the editing process and deciding what moments would allow Jed’s unique character traits shine but also not overtake the film.

Fantasyland is a wild and wacky place. The world of fantasy sports is filled with unique characters who have funny stories to tell. It’s my hope that the audience can watch the film and laugh at Jed, cringe from some of the things he does, lift their jaws up from the ground when he almost misses the birth of his twins due to fantasy baseball and much more. Ron Shandler, who is the founder of Tout Wars (the league featured in the film) and Jed’s main competitor throughout the season, recently said that he believes that this film will actually be good for the wives or girlfriends of fantasy players to watch because they will see Jed and realize that their husbands obsessions are minor league compared to his and for this they will be grateful.