Richard Linklater Discovered ‘Inordinate Amount’ of High School Peers in Prison While Filming Hometown Doc ‘God Save Texas’

Richard Linklater’s participation in the anthology series “God Save Texas,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, brought him to trace his high school football teammates to the Texas prison system. Based on Lawrence Wright’s book, “God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star…

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