Re: WAY OT:World Cup Cancelled Shocker!

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

Seeing as someone else started it :-)

Universal Pictures announced today they plan to make a film of the
momentous
football match that took place on Saturday. "Five-One" is the
tentative title
of what could be next year's big summer hit, depicting the American
national
soccer team's stunning victory over Germany.

Nicholas Cage heads an all star cast as the captain of the brave US Soccer
team haunted by the trauma of losing in the 2000 World Cup final on
penalties
and the death of his wife in a riot caused by English football hooligans,
and
finds love in the arms of a female sports journalist played by Julia
Roberts.
Mel Gibson is the no-nonsense Swedish coach who leads them to glory, with
Keanu Reeves, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Will Smith playing some of Cage's
heroic team mates. Jeremy Irons is set to star as Sir Nigel
Villiers-Smythe,
the dastardly Englishman who coaches the German team and forces them to
play
with poisoned-tipped studs to try and cheat the heroic American team out of
victory.

Director Steven Spielberg defended the film-makers' decision to focus on
the
American contribution to the victory over Germany and inaccurate and even
imagined events in the story, saying, "Obviously we've had to take
some
artistic licence to make the story work on film, but I hope that what we
produce will be true to the spirit of what happened on that famous
night."
On Thursday 06 September 2001 13:13 pm, Ian Lowe wrote:

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