{"id":7036,"date":"2013-05-11T04:11:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2013-05-11T04:11:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:11:21","slug":"messi-to-hit-the-big-screen-after-american-company-buy-rights-to-portray-rocky-style-biography-about-barcelona-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=7036","title":{"rendered":"Messi to hit the big screen after American company buy rights to portray &#8216;Rocky-style&#8217; biography about Barcelona superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7033\" alt=\"Real Betis' defender Javier Chica (L) vi\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m2.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m2-423x300.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Lionel Messi&#8217;s life story is set to hit cinemas in time for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Pictures Group says it is financing and developing a Rocky-style film after buying the rights to dramatise a biography about the Barcelona superstar.<\/p>\n<p>The Beverly Hills-based company says the biopic will chart Messi&#8217;s rise from a modest background in Argentina and how he &#8216;overcame his physical shortcomings to become one of the greatest players of all time.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder Shaked Berenson hopes &#8216;audiences will be uplifted by this incredible tale of fighting for your dreams.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi&#8217;s life story is set to hit cinemas in time for the 2014 World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}