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Sam Claflin is set to star as legendary soccer player, Robin Friday, in upcoming biopic.
Based on the biography Biopic is to be directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Henry-Alex.
To be produced by Mike Young, Julian Stone and Paolo Hewitt, the biopic will be shot in UK this fall.
According to reports, the upcoming biopic will also include casting real-life professional soccer players.
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The late English soccer legend, Robin Friday, played for Reading and Cardiff, Wales in the 1970s and died at the age of 38.
“This will not just be a film about cheering a goal, but about tears and laughs and music and silence and anger and love…because this working-class hero with outrageous talent lived it all". - producer Stone said.