Justin Bieber is set to star in a Hollywood blockbuster about Real Madrid.

The Canadian superstar is in the final stages of talks to appear alongside Cristiano Ronaldo and a host of the world’s most famous players in a sensational new film with a budget of around £100m.

Bieber, 22, who plays V Festival’s Chelmsford site tomorrow, would star as a young player from Los Angeles, who is plucked from obscurity and becomes an overnight sensation with the world’s most famous club.

The project, backed by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein , begins shooting in March 2017 with Real allowing the filming at their world-famous Bernabeu stadium and during some matches.

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The film would follow on from the trio of Goal movies made from 2005-2009 and is said to be a reboot of the franchise with Mike Jefferies, producer of the original films, involved again.

David Beckham is also understood to be considering playing himself in the movie, having appeared in the 2005 and 2007 releases Goal! and Goal II: Living The Dream.

A source said: “The film is well into the pre-production stages and the hope is that Bieber will sign on in the coming weeks.

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"It is a great opportunity for him and could be one of the biggest films of 2017 if all of his fans and the fans of Ronaldo go to the cinema.”

Bieber has a long-held and well-known passion for football, having trained with Barcelona and Chelsea in the past.

He is known to be keen to do his own football scenes in the film, and in June this year a video emerged of him doing kick-ups in his back garden with Barcelona forward Neymar.

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At the time, Barca’s website reported he showed “surprisingly decent skills with his left foot”.

The new movie is scheduled for release on Christmas Day 2017, ahead of the following summer’s World Cup in Russia.

The hope is that the growing interest in football in the USA and China, coupled with a cast led by Bieber, will ensure the project is a box-office smash.

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Clint Eastwood will also be approached and is the filmmakers’ first choice to play Bieber’s grandfather in a story that sees the young footballer battle to prove himself to Ronaldo, who will play himself, and his Galactico teammates.

Bieber has previously made a cameo appearance in Zoolander 2, but this film could give him the platform to become a star of stage and screen.