The audio, syncing problems overcome, was given an additional boost when Jimmy Douglass—who mixed Franklin’s original record for Atlantic Records when he was 22 years old—came back to mix Amazing Grace’s audio.
“For me, that was really important for the authenticity of the piece that we had those through lines,” Elliott says. “We’re really blessed to have that authority to follow through. To think about the fact that he mixed the record 46 years ago and just mixed the movie a week and a half ago is pretty incredible.” – Producer Alan Elliot
