The Beautiful Game, which will air on Netflix and Film 4, follows a group of homeless men who come together to play for England in football’s Homeless World Cup in Italy.
For over two decades, the Homeless World Cup has been a tremendous force in the fight against homelessness: over 1.2 million people have competed in the competition, representing almost 70 nations, and many have had life-changing experiences.
The upcoming Netflix film The Beautiful Game has done an excellent job conveying that drama and thrill to the screen.
The Beautiful Game | Official Trailer
The official Trailer for Netflix’s new football drama The Beautiful Game has been released. The series shows the fictional story of England’s homeless football team competing in the Homeless World Cup in Rome.
The Beautiful Game, made with the help of the Homeless World Cup, is a film about second chances, in which homeless teams from all over the world discover that all roads take them to Rome while everything is up for grabs.
The Trailer leads us to striker Vinny (Ward) & manager Mal (Nighy), with an early scene in which the latter watches the former perform a prominent penalty kick and remarks that it “had swagger.”
We then hear Vinny declare in voiceover, “I was a professional… Vinny Walker, history in the making,” as Mal adds that he was once a pro but has since been staying in his car for months.
The rest of the Trailer shows Mal recruiting Vinny for England’s homeless team, despite his initial unwillingness to be defined as homeless, before the big journey to Rome for the tournament, with Vinny stunned upon arrival.
The intriguing Trailer also promises a few conflicts between Vinny and some of his peers, plenty of motivational words from Mal, and cameos by other familiar faces.
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The Cast and Crew of The Beautiful Game.
The Beautiful Game boasts an impressive cast. Bill Nighy (Emma, Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean) stars as Mal, the England team’s coach.
In addition to Billy and Mal, Callum Scott Howells plays Nathan, and Michael Ward plays Vinny. At the same time, other stars are Valeria Golino (The Morning Show), Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Avengers Infinity War), Susan Wokoma (Enola Holmes), Kit Young (Shadow & Bone), Sheyi Cole (Small Axe), Robin Nazari (Snabba Cash), Layo-Christina Akinlude (The End of the F**king World) & Cristina Rodlo (No One Gets Out Alive).
The Beautiful Game will be released in selected theaters worldwide on Friday, March 22, 2024, followed by a global Netflix release on Friday, March 29, 2024.
