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 turnstiles
Film producers like nothing more than a chest-burstingly uplifting, against-the-odds, underdog-come-good, overcoming-adversity story, and Leicester City’s tilt at the Premier League title is about as chestburstingly uplifting as they come. 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 go about it? The first issue is where to pitch it. Notoriously, most films about football – about British football, at least – have been pretty bad: hamstrung between the need to appeal to the widest possible only-vaguely-interested audience (ie,...
Film producers like nothing more than a chest-burstingly uplifting, against-the-odds, underdog-come-good, overcoming-adversity story, and Leicester City’s tilt at the Premier League title is about as chestburstingly uplifting as they come. 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 go about it? The first issue is where to pitch it. Notoriously, most films about football – about British football, at least – have been pretty bad: hamstrung between the need to appeal to the widest possible only-vaguely-interested audience (ie,...
- 5/3/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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 turnstiles
Film producers like nothing more than a chest-burstingly uplifting, against-the-odds, underdog-come-good, overcoming-adversity story, and Leicester City’s tilt at the Premier League title is about as chestburstingly uplifting as they come. 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 go about it? The first issue is where to pitch it. Notoriously, most films about football – about British football, at least – have been pretty bad: hamstrung between the need to appeal to the widest possible only-vaguely-interested audience (ie,...
Film producers like nothing more than a chest-burstingly uplifting, against-the-odds, underdog-come-good, overcoming-adversity story, and Leicester City’s tilt at the Premier League title is about as chestburstingly uplifting as they come. 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 go about it? The first issue is where to pitch it. Notoriously, most films about football – about British football, at least – have been pretty bad: hamstrung between the need to appeal to the widest possible only-vaguely-interested audience (ie,...
- 5/3/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Here we are again with another installment of Everyone's A Critic, the feature that puts You in the reviewers seat right on the front page of Fangoria.com.
This time we feature Richard A. Ekstedt and his take on a classic Italian vampire film presented by Dark Sky Films, Slaughter Of The Vampires. If you dig Hammer, A.I. and Amicus, then read on and discover a truly underrated gem...
I've always had a special fondness for this film. The last time I saw it on commercial television was near the end of the 1960's around Thanksgiving while visiting my late Aunt Cheta's house in upstate New York, playing on the old Wor Channel 9. It was very late at night and my Aunt got up and found me watching this old black and white film, and sat down to view it with me. When she saw the rather top-heavy actress Graziella Granata,...
This time we feature Richard A. Ekstedt and his take on a classic Italian vampire film presented by Dark Sky Films, Slaughter Of The Vampires. If you dig Hammer, A.I. and Amicus, then read on and discover a truly underrated gem...
I've always had a special fondness for this film. The last time I saw it on commercial television was near the end of the 1960's around Thanksgiving while visiting my late Aunt Cheta's house in upstate New York, playing on the old Wor Channel 9. It was very late at night and my Aunt got up and found me watching this old black and white film, and sat down to view it with me. When she saw the rather top-heavy actress Graziella Granata,...
- 2/1/2009
- Fangoria
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