![]() ![]() ‘Can you tell me where the section of books is on how to become a movie producer?’ I ask her. So, the next day I drove to Barnes & Noble, parked the car in front of the store and caught the eye of a cashier. They’re the guys who come up with an idea, or buy an idea, buy a script and then scale it up, initiate monetization, hire everyone and all of that. Eventually Brittany said, ‘You’re an entrepreneur and producer tend to be entrepreneurs in the movie industry. So, we were sitting around a table with everyone trying to explain to me what movie producers did but nobody could actually put a finger on it. Maybe I should do something.’ But I didn’t want to go back to being a businessman, so she said, ‘Well, why don’t you become a movie producer?’ I replied, ‘What the fuck is a movie producer? Are you kidding? I’m just a kid from Liverpool, what do I know about making movies?’ I had always loved movies but it seemed like the craziest idea. But yeah, I guess I am getting a bit bored. She was like, ‘What do you do, Mike?’ ‘Nothing’. Then, one night I had a conversation with Brittany Murphy at a dinner. So I literally inverted my lifestyle: I was now going out to nightclubs and bars every night, chasing chicks around the city which was not very difficult. I then decided to make up for lost time and see what happened at night. I’d been a businessman wearing suits and ties up until when I moved to LA after selling my media company to the Daily Mail. I had moved from England to Los Angeles in 1999 and spent a couple of years just fucking around. When did you first get the idea to make a movie about football? Goal! movie franchise producer, Mike Jefferies, talks Real Madrid, Zidane, Beckham, Liverpool and the craziest Hollywood football experience he ever had. ![]()
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