The Biogenesis scandal was not a fun chapter in baseballs history.Youll remember that news broke over weeks and months and years, even. Different big-name players were connected to the anti-aging clinic in Miami and denials followed from most of those same players and suspensions were handed out and wild stories emerged from those connected to the story in South Florida. You probably know Manny Ramirez and Bartolo Colon and Alex Rodriguez were involved, but its easy to understand if a person mi sed some of the details or storylines along the whole convoluted way.MORE:Screwball attempts to paint a clear picture of the whole saga. Well, as clear a picture as po sible. Because, as youll see when you watch the documentary by director Billy Corben is available on DVD, iTunes and other streaming services on June 4 this is one bizarre, hard-to-believe story. The documentary features extensive interviews with Anthony Bosch, the fake doctor who ran Biogenesis of America, Porter Moser, the tan-addicted Miamian who ratted out Bosch to a newspaper over an unpaid $4,000 debt, Tim Elfrink, the Miami New Times reporter who broke the story, and several other participants in the events.You probably remember Corben from his unforgettable, highly rewatchable ESPN "30 for 30" films on the University of Miami football teams The U and The U, Part 2 and "Screwball" is another instant cla sic from the director.Sporting News spent a half-hour talking with Peyton Manning Jersey Corben recently Jacob Bobenmoyer Jersey about his project, one it'sclear he's pa sionate about.(Editor's note: The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.)SPORTING NEWS: I couldnt help but notice the Pete Rose cover of an i sue from The Sporting News when he was banned from baseball that you used in the documentary. That was a big plus in my book right away. Howd you choose that one?CORBEN: We were looking for fun images and looking for things that would be iconic. There wasn't a lot about about Pete in the doc, but there was enough that you wanted to kind of make the point and move on. So I thought that was fun.SN: Where did the idea come from to use the kid actors? That grabbed me right away, was kind of mesmerizing.CORBEN: Oh, thanks! I mean, listen, we've done a couple of the ESPN "30 for 30s." We did The U and The U Part 2.And so when you're doing those, to be candid, there's just a bit of a formula, you know? You talk to athletes who talk to you about sports games and you go get sports game footage and you put it over the athletes talking about sports games with each other. I don't want to say that it's paint-by-numbers, but there is a formula for that. And so this was a little bit different. This wasn't about sports, it was sports-adjacent, but they mentioned, I think, all of three or four baseball games in an hour and 40 minutes. They mentioned the Kansas City game, which was Alex's first game back after he started seeing Tony Bosch, where he hit the three home runs, and then there are the games at the end when they started gunning for Alex.SN: When Ryan Dempster hit him.CORBEN: Exactly. That's what I'm working with. So what do you do the other hour and 39 minutes of your movie? We had that challenge, and we knew we were going to have to do some reenactments, which are very complicated and can be very frustrating. Every time we sort of have a challenge like that with a doc, I try to come up with something a little bit outside the Steve Atwater Jersey box. The real inspiration, the original inspiration, OG, was Spike Jonze's1997 Biggie video, Sky's The Limit. He was doing a posthumous music video and decided to cast 8-year-old kids in a straight-forward, like iconic, Bad Boy-records video. Baby Biggie and Baby Puffy and Baby Busta Rhymes and Lil Lil Kim. We thought that was such genius and not exactly a device you can use anywhere. For us, Cocaine Cowbabies would not have been appropriate.And this movie was always called "Screwball." We always knew that we were going to have this sort of Carl Hiaasen/Elmore Leonard/Cohen Brothers-esque take on this story. We knew that, as serious as it was for the people living it contemporaneously, and even dangerous, with the benefit of hindsight, even they could appreciate the absurdity of their own behavior. Because when you start drilling down into it, if you wrote a script about this, youd get fired on page 15. Nobody would believe that. The notes would be like, No character would behave this way. No person would make these decisions in real life. This is stupid. You're fired. You can't write s.SN: It seems ridiculous.CORBEN: But they did all of this stuff. I mean, everybody. And I thought a lot of them, if not all of them, acted like children. And so it struck me that there'd be a good marriage here. We needed footage. We needed to reenact these events that didn't happen on a baseball field ... but rather happened in a fake doctor's clinic in a strip mall or a bar or a nightclub or a hotel room. We needed to figure out how to create those moments for which there was no footage. And then I was listening to Tony Bosch and Porter Fisher, our two main characters, the fake doctor and the whistle P.J. Locke III Jersey blower.I noticed in watching our radio cut, one of our rough cuts, that they both had this very similar, if not identical, storytelling style. They would tell the story so vividly and so in the moment they would do the dialogue of everybody involved, including themselves. And so theyre doing that, I said, X, Y, and X and He said A, B and C! Not everybody does that, you know? So I'm watching this and my exact line was, Oh sh, we could 'Drunk History' this!SN: Thats amazing.CORBEN: We would have actors on-set reenacting these scenes, lip syncing the original dialogue from the interviews and the actors will all be 8 years old. And that was just Im not gonna lie, there was whiskey involved in that decision-making proce s. A little bit of creative juice involved in the proce s, a little bit of creative lubrication. SN: So Ive got to know. The people involved, especially Tony and Porter, what did they think of the kids playing them? Did they know this is how you were doing it?CORBEN: (Laughing Dre'Mont Jones Jersey hard) They had no idea. So this is a really, really good question. They had no idea. This is how ridiculous Miami is: We shot the whole thing on location in like 10 days. Weve got kids in wigs with beards and lab coats and police uniforms and pinstripes, running around with electric Tampa orange fake tans, and were all over town, in sports bars and nightclubs, on the street and hotels. And nobody looked twice at us. Nobody thought this was the least bit unusual.