A galactico-class talent with a planet-sized ego, Cristiano Ronaldo may just be the showponiest sportsman currently in action. He’s a one-man Harlem Globetrotters who sports enough hair product to burn its own private hole in the ozone layer and has about a bajillion goals to his name, and he’ll soon be adding ‘movie star’ to his repertoire. Senna and Amy director Asif Kapadia is one of a team of filmmakers bringing his story to the big screen with a new documentary entitled simply Ronaldo.
The Real Madrid and Portugal star announced news of the film, which is currently in post-production, on his Twitter feed. According to the synopsis, the film will follow “a year in the life of the world’s best groomed soccer player”. BAFTA-winner director Anthony Wonke took his cameras to Madrid, Lisbon, Madeira, Brazil and the US to get the film in the can.
I’m happy to confirm that there’s a film being produced about me. Stay tuned for more info at [@RonaldoFilm](https://twitter.com/RonaldoFilm) [pic.twitter.com/wi7oa0p6Z9](http://t.co/wi7oa0p6Z9) > > — Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) [June 9, 2015](https://twitter.com/Cristiano/status/608258390058496000)
If that “best groomed” bit sounds a little weird, rest assured that this won’t just be 90 minutes of Ronaldo applying pomade in the Real dressing room. With Kapadia and his regular collaborator James Gay-Rees involved as exec-producers, we’d expect more than a degree of storytelling rigour in the end product, even if Ronaldo is unlikely to have signed off on too warty a portrayal. Don’t, for instance, expect too many scenes of him practising his overhead kicks using small orphan boys as goalposts.
Universal will be distributing this one, which should find an audience among Real and Manchester United fans, the man’s 36 million Twitter followers and concerned climate change experts. Ronaldo will be out in the US in the autumn, with Europe no doubt getting its shot around the beginning of the 2015/16 football season.