Football icon’s Studio 99 and John Battsek’s Ventureland behind multi-part series
Netflix has greenlit a multi-part docu-series charting the life of David Beckham.
Produced by Searching for Sugar Man creative John Battsek and directed by Academy Award-winner Fisher Stevens, the doc will interweave never-before-seen personal archive footage from the football icon’s childhood through to present day, along with candid interviews with Beckham, his family, friends and key figures from his life.
The ‘definitive’ series will look beyond Beckham’s glitzy lifestyle as football club owner, entrepreneur and media mogul to explore his modest working-class beginnings in East London and track his determination to take him to the top of global football.
The as-yest unnamed doc will be produced by Beckham’s label Studio 99, in association with Battsek’s London-based Ventureland.
Battsek and Stevens will exec produce, with Senna’s Chris King and Bad Sport’s Bjorn Johnson editing. Tim Cragg (Three Identical Strangers) is the cinematographer.
The project with the streaming giant first emerged in 2020, when The Sun reported Beckham had signed for a series worth around £16m.
Studio 99 is also responsible for forthcoming four-part The Premiership: Rise of the Billionaires (working title) – the story of the Premier League – for Paramount+ and Disney+ series Save Our Squad, produced with Twenty Twenty.
Last year, it worked with Story Films on BBC2 doc series Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League.
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