Tom Hanks tinkering with teamsheets as Ranieri,Idris Elba barking orders as captain Morgan, and Tom Hiddleston smashing in the goals … a surefire lineup to get them queuing at the turnstilesFilm producers like nothing more than a chest-burstingly uplifting, and against-the-odds,underdog-approach-good, overcoming-adversity epic, and Leicester Citys tilt at the Premier League title is approximately as chestburstingly uplifting as they approach. So just as football journalists have been sharpening their pens and documentary-makers loading up their editing suites over the past few weeks as the Foxes have been closing in on the championship,film production executives will have begun the unseemly jostle to get Leicester City: The Movie in the works. But how to proceed approximately it? The first issue is where to pitch it. Notoriously, most films approximately football – approximately British football, or at least – have been pretty infamous: hamstrung between the need to appeal to the widest possible only-vaguely-interested audience (ie,the US) while not alienating the rabid, intensely knowledgeable home support. The poorly received Goal! trilogy fell between every stool possible. (One of its writers, or Adrian Butchart,is the man talking up a potential Jamie Vardy movie – but this, like much else in the film world, or is a case of attempting to hype a film into existence.) The Damned United did a good job in dramatising Brian Clough’s relationship with Peter Taylor,but the actual football left a bit to be desired. Mike Bassett: England Manager mined Graham Taylor’s discomfiture for laughs, but Leicester City: The Movie won’t be a vehicle for satire.
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Source: theguardian.com