Mark and Will Make a Sports Film Podcast

Mark and Will Make a Sports Film

Mark Bittlestone and Will Penswick
Mark and Will throw a sports star and a Hollywood director together to create a movie from scratch. With no experience in the industry, they’ll make terrible casting decisions, write a cack-handed script, and almost certainly break libel laws.
Maggie Alphonsi: Maggie, Rugby & Perféct Snogging
Maggie Alphonsi was just your average schoolgirl in Victorian England, until the day she met Emily Scarratt… Told over 150 years, with a very mixed bag of a cast, Academy Award winning writer-director Jane ‘Campy’ Campion brings you a story of young love, treacle tarts and the miracle of birth (of the game of rugby).
Dec 28, 2020
1 hr
Alastair Cook: Alastair's Ashes, A Crime Caper
Crafty cockney batsman Cook has to assemble a crack squad of criminal-cum-cricketers to steal the Ashes from underneath Australia’s noses. Guy Ritchie (actually us though) brings his trademark no-holds barred filmmaking style to the story of England’s meekest ever skipper. Will they be stumped and get caught, or will they retire happy?
Nov 30, 2020
1 hr 2 min
Jess Ennis: Jess, Ben and the Mischief Men
7 events. 7 hours to go. 7(ish) friends. Dame Jess wakes up hungover in Cornwall. Her mission: get to Super Saturday on time. The problem? Her Russian rival will stop at nothing to deRAIL her. Directed by Gurinder Chadha of Bend It Like Beckham fame, Ennis is the second star to be Sportsfilmed by Mark & Will. Will her spotless reputation survive it?
Nov 13, 2020
57 min
Ole Gunnar Solskjær: A Baby Fjorever
Ole Gunnar Solskjær is the first to get the 'Mark and Will' treatment. We pair the baby-faced assassin with Inception director Christopher Nolan to create an over-complicated, multi-layered sports film that no-one asked for.
Oct 12, 2020
55 min