Netflix Reveals March 29 Launch Date For ‘Homeless World Cup’ Film – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set a March 29 international launch for Homeless World Cup film The Lovely Recreation, which stars Oscar nominee Invoice Nighy (Residing) and BAFTA Rising Star winner Micheal Ward (Prime Boy).

The film will observe Mal (Nighy), the supervisor of England’s homeless soccer group, who takes his gamers to Rome with the hope of being topped champions of the Homeless World Cup, a worldwide avenue match. On the final minute he decides to carry gifted striker Vinny (Ward), who might give them an actual likelihood at profitable, however Vinny should overcome private demons and embrace the group to offer them an opportunity at profitable the match. Above is a first-look picture from the film.

Additionally starring are Susan Wokoma, Callum Scott Howells, Equipment Younger, Sheyi Cole, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Robin Nazari, Aoi Okuyama, Cristina Rodlo, Tadashi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Muroyama and Valeria Golino.

The long-gestating mission, which started filming in 2021, has been produced by Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Ben Knight for Three Billboards Exterior Ebbing Missouri outfit Blueprint Photos, Anita Overland (Small Axe) and In Bruges and The Batman star Colin Farrell.

Thea Sharrock (Depraved Little Letters) directs from a script by Frank Cottrell Boyce (The Railway Man).

Exec producers embody Diarmuid McKeown, Claudine Farrell and Ollie Madden and Daniel Battsek for Film4.

The Homeless World Cup Basis was established in 2001. The Basis’s mission is to make use of soccer to assist and encourage people who find themselves homeless to alter their very own lives and to alter perceptions and attitudes in the direction of people who find themselves experiencing homelessness. The 2024 Homeless World Cup will happen in Seoul, S Korea, whereas the newest version of the road soccer match happened in Sacramento, California in July 2023.

Farrell has been a long-time supporter of the mission, which was previously arrange at Fox Searchlight. He beforehand narrated the 2008 Sundance documentary Kicking It, which can also be concerning the charity.