‘Gol Gana’, the inspiration you need to start 2024, has already premiered in Ecuador

Based on a true story, Goal wins to follow American Samoathe football team unfortunately famous for losing a match 31 to 0 in 2001at the Coffs Harbor International Stadium, opposite the Australia team. The World Cup qualifiers are approaching and the team hires the misfit and hapless coach. Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) hoping that managed to change the history of the worst football team in the world in this moving comedy about losers.

Directed by New Zealand director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok2017), the inspiring story premiered in Ecuador Thursday December 28.

Inspired by the story of defeat, redemption and joyproducers Jonathan Cavendish and Andy Serkis, with production company Imaginarium Productions, acquired the rights to adapt the 2014 documentary Next goal winswho was the first to record this story.

“If you watch a movie that features football matches, most of the games seem quite boring.“Waititi confessed in an interview for this newspaper that he is more of a rugby fan due to his place of birth. “In addition, How do you make a football match interesting when one of the teams is the worst in the world and the players can barely pass the ball?”.

Fortunately, the filmmaker, his co-writer, explained Iain Morris is a fan who knows everything about football.

“So we had to three football nerds on set, ready to explain the rules to us and I just nodded and I said to them, ‘guys, why don’t you just tell me where to put the camera,'” he recalled. “They kind of wrote script for the players’ movements on the field and I would never take credit for that simply because I don’t understand it. But I’m happy and relieved to know that If you don’t know anything about football, you can understand what’s happening on the screen”.

Of Michael Fassbender like the coach Thomas Rongenthe film’s main character falls into the team.

“I had thought about different people and it had to be someone who felt like he was part of this movie and not the star”, explained the director. ‘That’s why I summoned Michael. In the hands of other actors, the film could have become something like “starring” and that would have left the community in the background. So I talked to him, he had already seen the documentary and after our great conversation, He read the script pretty quickly and told me he wanted to do it.”.

During filming, Waititi continues, Fassbender fit in easily. “He never pretended to be the main character in the foreground and was always one more. Besides, that’s who he is. “He never goes to the big Hollywood parties and is a genuine person who has no time for pretenses.”

The filmmaker and his producers They brought together a cast of familiar faces (such as Elisabeth Moss and Will Arnett) and new faces, including a Samoan and New Zealand actor Oscar Kightleywith whom Waititi has already worked hunting game (2016).

“The whole story is about Samoan people and many of my friends from New Zealand are Samoan actors with whom I have worked for the past twenty years. It was a great opportunity to work with them again and I actually thought about who to bring in while I was writing the script,” he said. “I’m Maori, but I really think we have a lot in common. (…) these stories are important to me and take me to a happy place”.