JACKS are needed to be kings!
Film-makers have already begun work on a movie charting Swansea City's roller-coaster recent history — and now they are looking for extras to star in the film.
The movie, Jack To A King, charts the club's brush with relegation from league football, to the heady heights of the premier competition.
It is being put together by a team of Oscar and Bafta award-winners, and will feature interviews as well as archive footage.
Now film-makers have revealed they are planning to recreate a scene of a fan bus travelling up to Wembley for the famous day in May 2011, when the Swans triumphed over Reading to realise their Premier League dream.
Broadcaster and musician Mal Pope said: "We are looking for 40 people to come on a night bus journey sometime during August. "Fans will travel on the bus up to the Severn Bridge and back in the early hours of the morning.
"Anyone under the age of 16 will need to be accompanied by an adult."
He added: "We are also hoping to recreate the scene of the players' shirts hanging in the dressing room at Wembley.
"So if any readers have a shirt from the play-off finals with the players name and number on the back, then that would be gold."
The players' shirts from the day which are being sought are Dorus de Vries, Angel Rangel, Gary Monk, Ashley Williams, Leon Britton, Nathan Dyer, Stephen Dobbie, Fabio Borini, Darren Pratley and Mark Gower.
The star-studded team behind the project includes Oscar-winning James Marsh, who won an Academy Award for his documentary Man On Wire, executive producer and two-time Bafta Cymru winner Edward Thomas, as well as director Marc Evans, the man behind Swansea-based musical Hunky Dory, and multi Welsh Bafta winning feature film Patagonia.
Also on board is editor Gregers Sall, who worked on double Bafta award winning film Senna, as well as Swansea's award-winning broadcaster and documentary maker, Mal Pope.
The team announced details of the film last month, together with an appeal for photographs, video clips and digital film that readers have taken at Swansea football games, in any format, no matter how archaic, from the old days at the much-loved Vetch Field, to the recent glory years at the Liberty Stadium, up to and including the victorious day they made it into the Premier League.
And they have re-issued the appeal for footage.
In particular, they are hoping to find Kev John's Braveheart speech at the final, and any radio phone-ins fans might have recorded during the Tony Petty era. Items can be dropped off at reception at the Liberty Stadium, the Evening Post office in Adelaide Street, or Swansea Sound — and contributors stand to have their names included in the film's credits.
More details can be found at www.jacktoaking.com
