Tom Brady's Shadow Lion Teams Up on "Misfits," a Documentary on Indiana's Title Run

Tom Brady's production company is making a documentary about Indiana University's football team, and it will follow the squad from a long history of losing to a national title. The film, called Misfits, is a joint project of Shadow Lion and Jigsaw Productions, Deadline reported on 2 November 2026.

According to Deadline, the documentary will trace Indiana football's path from what it calls the losingest program in college football history to the 2025 national champions. It will cover the 2025-26 season, when the Hoosiers finished 16-0. ESPN reported in January that Indiana completed one of the most improbable turnarounds in sports history to win the title.

Production is set to begin this fall. Deadline also reports that more than a dozen production companies competed to win access to the Indiana program for the film. Misfits is the first collaboration between Shadow Lion and Jigsaw.

Shadow Lion was founded by Tom Brady, the former NFL quarterback. It describes itself as a content and marketing studio, a company that makes films, series and other material for brands and broadcasters. Philip Byron oversees all of its original content, including unscripted shows, scripted series, feature films, documentaries and live programming, as The Hollywood Reporter noted in October 2025. Byron is one of the four executive producers on Misfits for Shadow Lion, alongside Gilad Haas, Jeff Fine and Lior Haas.

An executive producer is a senior figure who oversees a project's direction and funding, often without working day to day on set. Jigsaw's executive producers are Courtney Sexton, Richard Perello and Wendy Schmidt. Sexton is an executive vice president at Jigsaw and an Indiana University alumna. SportsPro reported in October 2025 that Fox Sports was investing in Shadow Lion, deepening its relationship with Brady.

Indiana's own athletics website already hosts a three-episode series, College Football Playoff National Champions!, that looks back at the Hoosiers' run to the title. The documentary is a separate project from that series.

For the people who make it, a film like this means months of filming, interviews and editing. Documentaries about a single team usually need a large crew to shoot practices, games and the stories off the field. Fans who followed the season can expect the film to revisit those games from the inside.

No release date or broadcaster has been confirmed in the announcement so far. For now, the clearest next step is the start of production this fall.