Kelowna producer drops some serious names in project update

Kelowna's connection to Hollywood and beyond - producer and filmmaker Adam Scorgie – is keeping himself busy, working alongside some of the biggest names in entertainment.

He’s in Kelowna prepping for the formal media announcement for his team’s next project, a documentary about NHL great Jordon Tootoo.

Scorgie was an exclusive guest on 103.1 Beach Mornings with Ara and Toby, where he did some serious name-dropping.

“I’m in town because we’re going to be working with Jordin Tootoo next,” Scorgie told host Ara Andonian. “One of Jordin’s sponsors, Canada Goose, has come on as a sponsor [for the documentary] and we’re doing a photo shoot today before the big press announcement.

“We’re just going to call it ‘Tootoo,’ because that’s such an iconic name, everyone knows who he is,” Scorgie said. “Being the first Inuk NHL player and playing for Team Canada, he has an incredible story… a great story of hope I think a lot of people need coming off the pandemic.”

Scorgie has worked with a lot of Tootoo’s Kelowna-based teammates on other projects and said everyone hit it off ahead of production in March.

From ice icons to Hollywood legends, Scorgie said he’s been working with his team on adding some extra sparkle to the Dolph Lundgren bio-doc, which is 30 per cent complete and due out in 2023. That work includes interviewing some of the biggest stars who have worked with Lundgren.

“We were just in Europe with Dolph, at four different locations, and for me, I was just geeking out,” Scorgie said, noting as the eldest member of the production team he has always been a fan of one of Hollywood’s leading action characters. He played alongside Sylvester Stallone in the Rocky movies and starred in He-Man, to name a few.

“I have to pinch myself. I’m working with He-man and I get to tell his story. When we were working in Spain, the Power Sword [from He-man], it was sitting there. I’m a dork, I knew what it was straight away.”

The biggest name being dropped by Scorgie has to be Dwayne Johnson, whose Seven Bucks Production company is co-producing the documentary on seven-time Mr. Olympia champion Phil Heath.

“We’ve just finished the rough-cut on Breaking Olympia, it just needs some notes and polishes. It’ll probably be released this spring or fall,” Scorgie said, adding The Rock makes an appearance.