Kavitha A. Davidson, Columnist

Does NFL Want to Give Sony a Concussion?

Will Smith playing Cam Newton playing Muhammad Ali?

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The fallout from the Sony Pictures e-mail hacks continues, and the latest revelation might not make the National Football League too happy.

Buzzfeed's Lindsey Adler found a memo among the enormous document dump discussing the company's strategy to combat any anticipated action by the NFL before the release of a feature film on brain disease in football. The upcoming drama, under the working title "Concussion," stars Will Smith as Bennet Omalu, the real-life neuropathologist credited with discovering chronic traumatic encephalopathy after conducting the autopsy of former Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster.