As Taika Waititi speeds toward the start of work on his adaptation of football documentary Next Goal Wins, he's busy building up the cast around Michael Fassbender. Elisabeth Moss is in talks to sign up.
Next Goal Wins follows Dutch coach Thomas Rongen, who attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa footie team from perennial losers into winners. Andy Serkis and his Imaginarium team picked up the rights to Mike Brett and Steve Jamison's documentary in 2015, and brought it to Waititi's attention. Waititi's been working on the script with The Inbetweeners' Iain Morris and the cameras should be rolling before the end of the year.
Moss, seen this year in Us and in her usual day job on The Handmaid's Tale, has Shirley due next year and will also be seen in Leigh Whannell's new version of The Invisible Man.