After seeing Next Goal Wins, I think there are a few other sports underdog stories that should be adapted for feature films.

It brings together all of the traditional pieces of a classic family friendly sports movie, but it doesn’t end up doing more than the expected with them.

Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins is next towards an Armie Hammer controversy trend of replacement.

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Taika Waititi works fast. The filmmaker/actor who crushed 2019 with Jojo Rabbit only recently started production on Next Goal Wins, a true sports story about the hard trodden American Samoa football team (which is to say, soccer team) starring Michael Fassbender as the team's Dutch coach. But now, as shared at a Fox Searchlight holiday party, there's already a first look available. And Fassbender is very blond and very passionate. Beyond Fassbender, we also see our first glimpse of the Samoan team eager to turn their luck around, rebound from the worst loss in World Cup history, …

After the resounding successes of writer/director/actor/very-well-dressed-man Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit, it's been inspiring to see him follow his passion for progressive commentary and stories that highlight the indigenous experience. And he just started filming a new project that will accomplish all these tasks and thensome: Next Goal Wins, the true story about the American Samoa soccer team's history of losing terribly, and their quest to turn things around and qualify for the 2014 World Cup. The Fox Searchlight Pictures film just began principal photography in Hawaii last week. "…

Elisabeth Moss enters discussions to costar in Taika Waititi and Fox Searchlight's upcoming true story-inspired sports comedy, Next Goal Wins.

Michael Fassbender has had a tough run of late, but he's looking to turn things around and I like his latest move, as he is in final talks to star in Taika Waititi's soccer movie Next Goal Wins, Collider has confirmed. Fox Searchlight's sports dramedy is based on the 2014 British documentary of the same name from Mike Brett and Steve Jamison. The underdog story follows the national football team of American Samoa and their coach as they try to transform from perennial losers into a squad that qualifies for the FIFA World Cup. [caption id="attachment_712929" …

Michael Fassbender enters talks to star in Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins, a sports dramedy based on the 2014 documentary of the same name.