Johan Cruyff Documentary Coming From Soccer Great’s Family, ‘Drive To Survive’ Producer Box To Box & Lusus
deadline.comThe life of late, great Dutch soccer star Johan Cruyff is the subject of a doc from Drive to Survive producer Box to Box Films and Dutch firm Lusus.
The currently unnamed doc is the first to be made about the former Ajax and Barcelona legend in collaboration with the Cruyff family.
Production begins later this year ahead of an intended Q3 or Q4 2025 launch. No network is yet attached but Box to Box and Lusus said they are “in talks with a number of interested broadcast platforms.” The film will “shine a true light on the complex and charismatic life and career of a man that has been hailed as one of the most influential figures of the modern game and one of International football’s greatest players of all time.” It will feature interviews with those close to Cruyff, who led the Dutch national team to the final of the 1978 World Cup, and accounts from other soccer legends that worked with him and were influenced by him.
Cryuff’s belief in ‘Total Football,’ a stylish possession-based system in which every player on a team can perform the functions of others and often does, made an indelible mark on the game.
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