Ten days after former NFL player Michael Oher filed a petition that challenged the accuracy of the Oscar-winning film about his life, producers are attempting to set the record straight.

Alcon Entertainment honchos set out to affirm the authenticity of the 2009 blockbuster “The Blind Side,” starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and Quinton Aaron. Promoted as based on a true story, the movie centered on a wealthy white family who takes in a Black foster child and steers him to football stardom.

In a 14-page legal document, dated Aug. 14, Oher alleged that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy did not adopt him as the film portrays, but instead placed him under a conservatorship after he turned 18, giving themselves legal authority to make business deals in his name.

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“We feel it is now important for us to respond to some recent media reports, which include many mischaracterizations and uninformed opinions,” Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove said in a statement issued Thursday. “The impetus for these stories has been a lawsuit by Michael Oher, which seems to have given critics and journalists alike a justification to unfairly pick apart the movie fourteen years later — some going so far as to call it ‘fake’ or a ‘lie.’”

The producers — whose credits include “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” and “The Good Lie” — added that the story of the film remains “verifiably...

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