Do you remember Mike Bassett - England Manager? Whatever happened to him?

So we shot this last month with some of our German and English supporting artists in London.


Yes that's right Mike Bassett is back with his sidekick Bradley Walsh.


Played by Ricky Tomlinson (The Royle Family, Brookside), Mike Bassett entered every football fan's consciousness in 2001 as Martin Bashir documented his exploits as England manager.


His hilarious mixture of passion and ineptitude has made Bassett a byword for all that is right and wrong about English football. When nobody else could or would take the England manager job over a decade ago, Bassett somehow led them to the semi-finals of the World Cup where they were finally beaten by Brazil (but equalled their best performance since winning the '66 World Cup).

Since then however, Mike Bassett has fallen down the ladder to the lowest of the lower divisions...


I know some of you are going to want to be part of this one when we start filming the full feature starting soon.


This is the teaser trailer just released for the forthcoming and second instalment as we catch up with Mike Bassett - Interim Manager. More on this coming soon.

MIke Bassett - Interim Manager is giving you a chance to be part of the next chapter.

WHO IS MIKE BASSETT?

Mike Bassett is back! Ricky Tomlinson reprises his role as Mike Bassett in the sequel to Steve Barron's Mike Bassett: England Manager.

Played by Ricky Tomlinson (The Royle Family, Brookside, In the Flesh), Mike Bassett entered every football fan's consciousness in 2001 as Martin Bashir documented his exploits as England manager. His hilarious mixture of passion and ineptitude has made Bassett a byword for all that is right and wrong about English football. 

When nobody else could or would take the England manager job over a decade ago, Bassett somehow led them to the semi-finals of the World Cup where they were finally beaten by Brazil (but equalled their best performance since winning the '66 World Cup). Since then however, Bassett has had a descent into the depths of international management, and is struggling with the Iranian ladies football team in Tehran. 

Meanwhile the England set-up is being efficiently and successfully managed by his former number two from his Bundesliga third division days, Jorgen Mannstein (who has the team sailing through their World Cup qualifiers). In his usual style, Bassett offends almost all of Iran, and so is soon back looking for another job. It doesn't take long for him to get a call from his old friend Mannstein, leading to his being drafted back into the England fold to work under the brilliant German on his coaching staff. 

Yet, 'unforeseen' circumstances occur, forcing Bassett into becoming England's Interim Manager for the rest of the World Cup, as he soon comes to realise just how questionable his prospects are.

We're offering you the chance to be a part of the next chapter in the Mike Bassett saga. Through simply buying the exciting rewards along the right of this page, you will help Mike Bassett: Interim Manager get closer to reality.

We have a variety of rewards for backers, from copies of the film, to posters, to clothing, to chances to join us on set or even appear in the film (as an extra, or as a featured speaking part!) This is top quality stuff for any discerning Mike Bassett fan, or football fan, or anyone really!

We'll be introducing new rewards throughout the campaign, and taking your feedback on what you'd like to see. Look out for one-off special items and opportunities, and make sure to get involved at any level to ensure you get to be a part of the behind the scenes backer-only content that will continue throughout the film all the way up to release.  Watch this space.

Mike Bassett – Interim Manager requires extras.

Mike Bassett - Interim Manager

England’s most notorious football manager Mike Bassett played by Ricky Tomlinson (Royal Family, In the Flesh) is heading back to the big screens with a sequel to the cult classic comedy ‘Mike Bassett – England Manager’ also starring Amanda Redman and am looking forward to this one.

Steve Barron, who directed the first film, will return to oversee the sequel alongside screenwriters Rob Sprackling and John R Smith. Steve is probably best known for directing 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' but comes from a docudrama background having directed a host of musicians such as David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Madonna Steve also directed one of my little known guilty pleasures, a film called 'Electric Dreams' in 1984 of which i know at the very mention of the name can have me humming the title track.

We have been asked to supply the extras for this and are filming a scene for the production of the 'KIckstarter' crowd funding campaign of which the first one is the 7th October 2014 in London. We also need people of Thursday 8th, Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th October.

To give you a heads up here are the details of our first day.

Date: Tuesday 7th October, Call time: 3pm, Location: Wembley Stadium.

This is paid for the right applicants.

Filming is taking place in Germany, South Africa and London and have a feeling with our football mad extras this is going to be popular so let us know ASAP if you want to be part of this and the dates you are available next month.

Check out the first 'Kickstarter' campaign trailer below and be sure to check back to see our extras in the next one.