Nick Love On Filming The Football Factory And Discovering Danny Dyer
It took a special film to tell the truth about soccer hooliganism. And in Danny Dyer, writer-director Love found the perfect actor to give rage and hate a human face...
From its opening montage of the Stone Island logo, a strutting Danny Dyer and Primal Scream’s ‘Swastika Eyes’, it’s clear The Football Factory isn’t messing about. Sure, they’d already been great films about ‘the British disease’ – none better perhaps that Alan Clarke’s The Firm – but a new millennium called for a new movie, one that didn’t wag its fing…
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