The lifetime of Justin Fashanu, the primary footballer to return out as homosexual, and his brother John Fashanu, is to be was an ITV drama from BAFTA-nominated author Kwame Kwei-Armah.
Justin Fashanu was a particularly proficient footballer who turned the primary black British footballer to be offered for £1M ($1.2M) on the age of simply 20, turning into one of the celebrated folks in British sport. In 1990, he got here out as homosexual and by 1998, together with his soccer profession in tatters and ostracized by his household, he dedicated suicide.
The drama will weave collectively the lives of Justin Fashanu and his brother John Fashanu, who additionally performed soccer and was estranged from his brother on the time of his loss of life.
ITV mentioned the drama is being put along with the assist of Fashanu’s brother and different contributors embody LGBTQ+ campaigner Peter Tatchell. Dominic Treadwell Collins’ ITV Studios label Happy Prince is producing, Kwei-Armah (Elmina’s Kitchen) is writing and ITV Studios is distributing.
Kwei-Armah mentioned: “I grew up watching the Fashanu brothers. I was fascinated by them. Inspired by them. As an adult, my heart breaks for them. ‘The past is a foreign land’, the saying goes, ‘they do things differently there’. In Fash, I wanted to dive into that past, particularly one that has so many resonances with today.”
ITV Drama head Polly Hill mentioned the scribe’s “scripts are brilliant and and tell a story that is heart-breaking and sadly still relevant today.”
ITV can also be quickly to premier biopics about Crossroads star Noele Gordon, starring Helena Bonham Carter, and Cary Grant, starring Jason Isaacs.
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