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26th September 2005: Goal!: Movie Review: Movie Review of Goal! posted by Rich Cline Click Here

22nd July 2005: Goal!: Movie Trailer: The new movie trailer for Goal! is now online. Goal! movie trailer

Friday 10th June 2005: Goal! Update:
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Friday 11th February 2005: Goal!:
Kuno Becker has replaced Diego Luna as the lead in Danny Cannon's Goal! Mexican actor Becker stars in the rags to riches story of a young Latino player who journies from the Barrios of East LA to the glamour of the English Premier league to try and win a contract with Newcastle United.

Monday 8th November 2004: Goal! update:
David Beckham and fellow international soccer superstars Zinedine Zidane and Raul have signed on to play themselves in three installments of Goal!, the $100 million trilogy being directed by Danny Cannon. The films star Diego Luna as a soccer phenomenon from East L.A. whose skills take him from the barrio to a professional contract with Newcastle United.

Wednesday 4th August 2004: Goal! Update:
Danny Cannon has stepped into the director's chair left vacant by Michael Winterbottom to helm Goal! The script from Mike Jefferies with Adrian Butchart sees a young Latino from the barrios of East Los Angeles become an international soccer star.

2nd June 2004: Goal Update:
Director Michael Winterbottom has left the football movie Goal after creative differences despite already having begun to shoot footage at Newcastle games.

Wednesday 7th April 2004: Goal! Update:
GOAL! is the first true blockbuster about football which even threatens to break the sport dyslexic American market with a star with U.S. appeal and a gigantic budget. Touting itself as Rocky in football boots, it is the first in a trilogy about a promising footballer from East Los Angeles played by DIEGO LUNA (Y tu mama tambien, Frida, Open Range, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights) who is picked up by the English Premier League club Newcastle United. STELLAN SKARSGERD will portray the coach of Newcastle United.
It is being directed by BAFTA winning Brit director MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM from a script co-written by ADRIAN BUTCHART and producer MIKE JEFFERIES under adaptation by DON McPHERSON. Producers are MIKE JEFFERIES and MATT BARELLE of Milkshake Films, Icon Productions BRUCE DAVEY and UK based Revolution Films ANDREW EATON. LAWRENCE BENDER is exec producing.
The film is in currently in production with a start date in late April and an estimated budget of $30 million with a February 2005 release date.
The second film will show him transferred to European champion Real Madrid in Spain. The final film will climax with his appearance for his country at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The third movie's release will coincide with the 2006 World Cup.

Tuesday 23rd March 2004: Goal! Update:
Director Michael Winterbottom has signed on to direct Goal! Signed up to star are Diego Luna and Stellan Skarsgard. The movie is being distributed by Icon Entertainment. The film has been written by Don McPherson. Goal! is the first part of a trilogy about a young Hispanic soccer player from Los Angeles pursuing a dream of global soccer stardom. In the first movie, he breaks through with English Premier League club Newcastle. In the second, a couple of years later, he gets transferred to Euro champs Real Madrid in Spain. The trilogy climaxes with his appearance for his country (either Argentina or Spain) at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Monday 26th January 2004: Goal! Update:
Super scooper Lesley has been in touch with the following update on Goal! "Peter Hargitay of Milkshake Films has confirmed that Newcastle has beaten Manchester United and Chelsea in the bid to land a starring role in Goal! Gael Garcia Bernal will take the lead role but Toon boss Sir Bobby Robson and skipper Alan Shearer are tipped to make cameo appearances. Apparantly this first film in the trilogy has a budget of £22m."

Monday 22nd September 2003: Goal! Update:
England captain David Beckham is said to be on the verge of landing a role
in major football film Goal!, the first installment in a football trilogy
which has American backing. And in other football-related movie news,
Everton’s Wayne Rooney has apparently landed a walk-on part in Alfie.

Tuesday 16th September 2003: Goal! Update:
"Newcastle United has been wooing Hollywood's bigwigs in a bid to bring a mega-bucks movie to the region. The Magpies are battling it out with Manchester United for a starring role in a blockbuster set to generate millions of pounds in merchandising and commercial opportunities.

Apparantly the question of which kit supplier features in the film is an important one, as it would be asked to inject a massive amount of cash in the movie. Adidas makes Newcastle's kit and also supplies Real Madrid and Argentina - the three teams mooted to feature in the £15m trilogy." Thanks to Lesley Thomson.

Thursday 11th September 2003: Goal! Update:
Gaël García Bernal is in talks to play the leading role in Goal!, a planned trilogy of movies about the rise of a Latino soccer star living in Los Angeles. FIFA, the governing body of world soccer, will support the project. The producers are planning to shoot the first movie next year. The film will follow the wannabe star as he travels from his home in Los Angeles to join a major English team. The two clubs contending for this role are understood to be Newcastle United and Chelsea. For the second movie, the rising star will be transferred either to Real Madrid in Spain or to an unspecified Italian club. In the third film, he will play in the World Cup.

Thursday 22nd May 2003: Goal! Update:
Several Premiership football players are being signed up to star in a
big-budget Hollywood franchise being billed as football's Rocky. Quentin
Tarantino's producers are in talks with the Premier League about setting the
first of the £45m-plus trilogy in a real top-flight northern club. Goal!,
which will start shooting this summer, will follow a young Latino from south
central Los Angeles who comes to England to play in the Premiership.
Producer Mike Jefferies said: "No one has ever made a big soccer movie. Up
until now we have had small parochial stories, and no one has used real star
players the way we will." Pioneering techniques will let the "camera right
into the action for the first time", he said, adding that the "meat of the
story will be carried by actors, but we will have very big name cameos from
the game". In the first film, the young American player will face "a
fish-out-of-water struggle to adapt from life in LA to winter in a northern
city,” Jefferies said, while in the second he will join a continental club.
The last in the trilogy will coincide with the World Cup finals in 2006 in
Germany.

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