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Moviemakers are in talks to film the story of Swansea City’s rise from the football doldrums to the Premier League, we can reveal.

A motion picture on the Swans is being discussed with the planned movie in its very early “planning” stage, a source close to the project confirmed.

Club officials were tight-lipped about the project last night, ahead of today’s Capital One Cup final appearance, but fans and movie experts have backed the idea saying the club has “the perfect story for the movies”.

Nigel Davies, editor of Swansea City fanzine A Touch Far Vetched, said supporting the club over the last 10 years had left everybody pinching themselves.

He said: “I hadn’t heard the movie was happening so it is absolutely the first time I had heard that.

“I don’t think people would believe what had happened in the past 10 years and it has been said it’s too far fetched for Hollywood.

“The way we have gone from the very bottom up to the top league and on the verge now of a major trophy and possibly Europe next season all doing it with unbelievable style and without chucking lots of money at it.

“I suppose it’s a perfect story for the movies.”

It is understood Hunky Dory, My Little Eye and Patagonia director Marc Evans could be in the frame to direct the movie adaptation on the Swans.

While it is not known what the exact focus of the film will be, it is thought the 10 years from the last day of the season in 2003 – when director of football Brian Flynn saved the club from going out of The Football League with a 4-2 win over Hull – to the present day would present the best opportunity for a story arc.

On that day a decade ago, Swansea-born striker James Thomas, now an ambulance worker, smashed home a hat-trick to preserve his hometown team’s league status.

To add to the drama, the club had just been rescued off the field with fans raising thousands to enable a buy-out by local businessmen.

Fast forward to today and the team are heavy favourites to add some silverware to their story when they take on lower league Bradford City at Wembley.

Mr Davies said he hoped the film’s plot would be a faithful representation of the Swans and that football fans of all colours would embrace it.

“You would hope if it was done it would be done in a proper way not sensationalised or trivialised,” he said.

“There’s a large and serious story behind it. If it’s done properly then it could work really well and I often say the way that the Swans have done things over the years, it’s almost like a guidebook for other clubs on how to do it.

“You would hope other fans would sit and watch it, the supporters and businessmen and how they turned the club around and that it would be something that would stick with them and could be a great positive for football in general.

“Football gets such a bad press these days and on the whole it’s justified.

“There’s too much money in the game and very few good people and good clubs in the game as well but people have connected with Swansea as a club.”

In the past football on film has been somewhat hit and miss.

While The Damned United was largely praised for its portrayals of one of the game’s greatest managers Brian Clough, the Goal trilogy about an impoverished Mexican footballer who ends up making it in Europe’s big leagues was less well received.

But film expert Gary Slaymaker said the Swans was a perfect subject matter for the big screen.

He said: “They have had a hell of a journey.

“The fact they came from nothing and came up through the leagues through the Toshack years and then nearly left the league completely and now they are back in the Premier League, as a story arc it’s Hollywood.”

Mr Slaymaker said while boxing in cinema had a good track record, a good football film was a rare feat and those that triumphed normally focused on the characters of the game.

But he said Swansea City’s history was littered with them.

“A good football film is a rare thing,” he added.

“Usually there’s a twist to it.

“If you are making a sports film it’s almost easier if you single out an individual. The whole point is you would need a focal figure and the story of a Swansea City man.

“You could go back to the days of John Charles, Cliff Jones and Terry Medwin.

“But then there’s that line then until the ‘70s and ‘80s when Toshack is in charge and then the Brendan Rodgers and Michael Laudrup era.

“If you could do a football Back to the Future I think you would nail it.

“There’s the triumph of adversity and quite often plucky underdogs – Swansea certainly fit that bill.

“If you start a film the season they went down and rebuilding to where they got now it would certainly make a story.”