{"id":19091,"date":"2013-06-24T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=19091"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"swansea-city-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2013\/06\/24\/swansea-city-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City &#8211; The Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storytext\">\n<p class=\"storytext\">The film is being directed by BAFTA Award-winning director Marc Evans, who says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is not just a film about the rise of Swansea City Football Club, but the story of a town and the people who made that club what it is today.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">\n<p class=\"storytext\">Executive Producer Mal Pope: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a truly remarkable story of how a &#8216;rag tag&#8217; band of builders, housewives, teachers and travel agents came together to save their football club and ended up turning their city into a worldwide brand. A story of how sometimes even the wildest dreams can come true!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">\n<p class=\"storytext\">Oscar-winning co-producer James Marsh agrees: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The re-birth of a neglected, provincial football club into genuine Premier League contenders is both a romantic modern day fairytale and a gripping thriller of a story. It&#8217;s a remarkable and surprising tale which will make for an irresistible, highly emotional film that will appeal to anyone who&#8217;s ever rooted for the underdog.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">\n<p class=\"storytext\">A spokesman for Swansea City Football Club confirmed that the film makers are being given unprecedented access to the Premier League club : \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re thrilled to be working with YJB Films on this exciting project. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a real first for the football world. Swansea City\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s success has really caught the attention of a global audience.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film is being directed by BAFTA Award-winning director Marc Evans, who says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is not just a film about the rise of Swansea City Football Club, but the story of a town and the people who made that club what it is today.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Executive Producer Mal Pope: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a truly remarkable story of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}