It looks like Ghana’s recent World Cup disgrace will forever not be forgotten, as a Hollywood film-maker is set to make a movie, intending to cash in on what happened…
According to The Wrap, an award-winning US writer- Darryl Wharton-Rigby is planning a Hollywood thriller spun off the true and bizarre story of Ghana’s World Cup cash wahala…
Though the movie will be based on the Black Stars’ cash demand and the Government’s airlifting of the cash to Brazil for them, a little will be added to spice the story. Therefore, the plot of the movie will see the $3m stolen after the courier is ambushed. He then has fewer than 12 hours to recover the money or face the wrath of his employers (and presumably the Ghanaian footballers).
According to UK’s Guardian;
The screenplay has been optioned by US production company Bugeater, whose founders Dan Mirvish and Barry Hennessey will produce the film. Hennessy, an Emmy winner for reality TV show The Amazing Race, told the Wrap: “I’ve shot extensively in both Ghana and Brazil, and this is a perfect project to capture the raw energy that both countries have to offer.”
Wharton-Rigby’s 1998 film Detention won the best director prize at the Urbanworld film festival. The thriller is the second football-related project to emerge in the past few weeks, following news that Hollywood studio Warner Bros plans to capitalise on US World Cup fever with a remake of cult classic Michael Caine tale Escape to Victory.
eiii ghana we’re collecting our name papa.
Why is Hollywood suddenly so much into Ghana? Ple, think ooo? Hmmm Mahama is a joke! Bow your head down in shame. Is this the footsteps of Mills? Where ARE THE VIRTUES PLE?!
then it will be a boring movie
OYIWA, ENIGUASESEM PAAA NI NOW IS VERY BAD, WHY WONT THESE PEOPLE LOOKED DOWN ON US EVERYTIME? AND YET THEY BLAME THE INNOCENT BOYS FOR SLEEPING AROUND. SMH BUNCH OF CORRUPT OFFICIALS