Barry Bonds, MLB's controversial home run king, to be subject of upcoming documentary

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HBO announced Wednesday it has launched production on a documentary that will highlight Barry Bonds.

Bonds was, and continues to be, one of the most polarizing and notorious baseball players of all time.

The seven-time Most Valuable Player is the all-time home run king, but it's widely speculated and believed that he was heavily aided by the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

His ties to steroids left him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame through the Baseball Writers' Association of America vote, and his fate in the Hall will now be left up to other committees.

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Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits career home run No. 756 on August 7, 2007, at AT&T Park in San Francisco. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

"The untitled HBO Sports Documentary will tell the story of Barry Bonds, baseball’s single-season and all-time home run king, from his beginnings as the son of All-Star Bobby Bonds, and godson of the iconic Willie Mays, all the way up to his meteoric rise in the 1990s and 2000s," says a release about the project via Deadline. 

"Using archival footage and original interviews, the film will chronicle Bonds’ emergence as one of the game’s most talented all-around players with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants and then his years as a superstar with the Giants when he rewrote the record book in his late 30s amid controversy."

The film is being directed by Keith McQuirter, who may be best known for his work on "By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem." Several executive producers from ESPN's film series "30 For 30" will also be working on