Kate Bosworth and Justin Long are celebrating the latter’s birthday by making more than one of his dreams come true.
16.05.2023 - 13:31 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The life of Ecuadorian soccer star and World Cup record-breaker Enner Valencia is set for the big screen treatment.
8th Gear Entertainment, the film production company founded by James Leon, has acquired the rights to Valencia’s life story and will produce a feature biopic about his story from poverty in South America to the biggest stage of the beautiful game.
Titled Enner, the pic will be shot in Ecuador, Miami, and Qatar in 2024. Leon, an Ecuadorian native, will produce the film with Ted Field and his Radar Pictures (Jumanji, Chronicles of Riddick franchises). Enner Valencia is executive producing alongside his manager Gonzalo Vargas.
Valencia is the current captain and leading goal scorer for Ecuador’s national soccer team, with 38 international goals since his first appearance in 2012. Valencia made headlines at the last World Cup in Qatar when he netted against Holland, making him the first player to score six consecutive goals for any South American country. The 33-year-old striker currently plays his club football for Turkish Super League club Fenerbahce. He has 27 club goals in 27 games.
The biopic will touch on multiple facets of Valencia’s life, from childhood to his marriage and rejection from three professional soccer teams. Born in San Lorenzo, Ecuador, to a poverty-stricken family, Valencia grew up helping his father, who was a farmer, earn a living selling milk and first made his mark in the soccer world after joining the Caribe Junior youth system before signing with the Emelec Sporting Club in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Having nowhere to live, Valencia stayed in a room inside the soccer stadium and attended training sessions. While playing for Emilec, Valencia won the Ecuadorian Serie A and Copa
Kate Bosworth and Justin Long are celebrating the latter’s birthday by making more than one of his dreams come true.
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