Michael Fassbender is lacing up his cleats for TaikaWaititi's latest project. Get the details:
The two-time Oscar nominee is in final talks to star in Based on a 2014 British documentary of the same name from Mike Brett and Steve Jamison,is an underdog story that follows the national football team of American Samoa and their coach, Thomas Rongen, as they try to transform from perennial losers into a FIFA World Cup-qualifying outfit.
Fassbender will play the coach, while casting calls have gone out for Fa'afafine actors to play the team members., which recently bowed in Toronto. He will be directing The Kiwi filmmaker co-wrote the screenplay with Iain Morris, with Jonathan Cavendish, Brett and Jamison set to produce. Also producing will be Garrett Basch and Andy Serkis, whose Imaginarium Productions originally optioned the rights to the doc.
Fassbender, who is repped by CAA, the U.K.'s Troika and Sloane Offer, was last in theaters reprising his X-Men role of Magneto in
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