Fifth instalment of the British crime franchise set for release in 2021.
Vinnie Jones has joined the cast of UK crime drama Rise Of The Footsoldier: Origins, which is set to begin shooting in October.
The fifth instalment in the popular franchise will explore how the notorious Essex Boys first united in the late 1980s. Directed by Nick Nevern, whose credits include The Hooligan Factory, who also co-wrote the script with producer Andrew Loveday, it will be released in the UK by Signature Entertainment in 2021.
Jones will play Bernard O’Mahoney, a real-life character who was associated with one of the three...
Vinnie Jones has joined the cast of UK crime drama Rise Of The Footsoldier: Origins, which is set to begin shooting in October.
The fifth instalment in the popular franchise will explore how the notorious Essex Boys first united in the late 1980s. Directed by Nick Nevern, whose credits include The Hooligan Factory, who also co-wrote the script with producer Andrew Loveday, it will be released in the UK by Signature Entertainment in 2021.
Jones will play Bernard O’Mahoney, a real-life character who was associated with one of the three...
- 8/27/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
The fifth instalment of the British gangster series set for release in 2021.
UK gangster franchise Rise Of The Footsoldier is set to be rebooted with a new cast.
The new feature, which has the working title Footsoldier Millennium, is in advanced development and is set to be released in late 2021 by Signature Entertainment.
Carnaby International will handle sales on the film and Nick Nevern, the director and star of The Hooligan Factory, is attached to direct.
It will mark the fifth instalment of the low budget, ultra-violent gangster series, which began with Julian Gilbey’s Rise Of The Footsoldier in...
UK gangster franchise Rise Of The Footsoldier is set to be rebooted with a new cast.
The new feature, which has the working title Footsoldier Millennium, is in advanced development and is set to be released in late 2021 by Signature Entertainment.
Carnaby International will handle sales on the film and Nick Nevern, the director and star of The Hooligan Factory, is attached to direct.
It will mark the fifth instalment of the low budget, ultra-violent gangster series, which began with Julian Gilbey’s Rise Of The Footsoldier in...
- 1/9/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Lairy crime saga Rise of the Footsoldiers is the latest victim of a film-industry smash-and-grab: a new title. Do they think we’re mugs?
Fans of the preposterous low-budget British crime saga Rise of the Footsoldier have plenty to worry about. There’s the series’ Rotten Tomatoes score, which has oscillated from a high of 88% to a horrible low of 23%. There’s the sad realisation that Shaun Ryder won’t be in any of the new films, after he was so memorably stabbed to death with a lightbulb in the last one. And now they have a name change to contend with.
Next week’s fourth instalment had originally been titled Rise of the Footsoldier: Marbella. But now, in a last-minute reverse ferret, it is to be called Rise of the Footsoldier: The Spanish Heist. Why? Perhaps producers were worried the original title was too geographically specific, or that it...
Fans of the preposterous low-budget British crime saga Rise of the Footsoldier have plenty to worry about. There’s the series’ Rotten Tomatoes score, which has oscillated from a high of 88% to a horrible low of 23%. There’s the sad realisation that Shaun Ryder won’t be in any of the new films, after he was so memorably stabbed to death with a lightbulb in the last one. And now they have a name change to contend with.
Next week’s fourth instalment had originally been titled Rise of the Footsoldier: Marbella. But now, in a last-minute reverse ferret, it is to be called Rise of the Footsoldier: The Spanish Heist. Why? Perhaps producers were worried the original title was too geographically specific, or that it...
- 11/1/2019
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
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