First NextGoalWins images unveil Michael Fassbender as a Soccer Coach in Taika Waititi's sports comedy.
Fans have finally gotten their first look at Taika Waititi's newest movie, Next Goal Wins. EW released the first images for the upcoming film which stars Michael Fassbender as Thomas Rongen, a Dutch soccer coach who finds himself on the other side of the world put in charge of the planet's worst soccer team.
Following a world-record defeat for a competitive international football match, the American Samoa national team looked to recover from their humiliating 31-0 defeat to Australia by bringing in a coach with new ideas. The move to appoint Rongen was covered in a 2014 documentary of the same name, and Waititi saw enough potential in the story to make his own feature from it.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY "Years ago, I watched it and couldn't believe I'd never heard of this story before," said Waititi, who has just come off Thor: Love and Thunder which released in the summer. "I'd never made a sports film before, and I really wanted to try that out. It's about a sport I don't know that much about. Rugby is the national sport in New Zealand, but it's about underdogs, and I just love underdog stories.
In addition to Fassbender, the film also features Elisabeth Moss and Will Arnett, as Rongen's ex-wife, and a soccer executive respectively. Samoan-New Zealand actor Oscar Kightley also features, playing the head of American Samoa's soccer federation, as well as Kamaina, who plays the trans football player Jaiyah Saelua. Of Jaiya, Waititi says: "Jaiya is a trans player — one of the star players of the team — and a lot of the film revolves around her relationship with Thomas Rongen.
Next Goal Wins was co-written by Waititi and Iain Morris. The film's cast also includes David Fane, Beulah Koale, Lehi Falepapalangi, Semu Filipo, Uli Latukefu, and Rachel House. It was produced by Waititi, Jonathan Cavendish, Garrett Basch, Mike Brett, and Steve Jamison.
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