From Non League to the silver screen
There’s been lots written about Jamie Vardy’s meteoric rise to the Premier League and his extraordinary purple patch, but things are getting plain silly now.
Scoring in his 11th consecutive Premier League match at the weekend, Vardy has continued to win plenty of plaudits and is now said to have attracted the attention of screenwriter, Adrian Butchart.
Butchart was responsible for the Goal films (remember those?), which charted the rise of everyone’s favourite fictional inhaler-dependent Mexican footballer, Santiago Muñez.
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The Sun now claim Butchart is having meetings with a view to turning Vardy’s story into a film. The report even goes as far as to suggest that the likes of Robert Pattinson or Zac Efron could be in line to play the Leicester striker.
Now if the thought of Zac Efron uttering the words “chat sh*t, get banged” doesn’t lighten your day, nothing will.
“It’s the kind of story that if we made it up, people wouldn’t believe it,” Butchart says.
“His achievements are incredible and to break the Premier League record with such a sublime goal against the biggest club in football pushed him to the top of our agenda.
“It’s amazing to think he was playing non-league football and making medical splints for a living until so recently before breaking the record. It is the kind of role actors dream of.”
Pattinson would be pale enough for the role, we guess.
