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THE DAMNED UNITED

Production Notes

MICHAEL SHEEN TIMOTHY SPALL COLM MEANEY

JIM BROADBENT

Screenplay by Peter Morgan

Based on the novel by David Peace Directed by Tom Hooper

Produced by Andy Harries Executive Produced by

Christine Langan, Hugo Heppell and Peter Morgan

Logline An examination of what went wrong for the dynamic, outspoken young football manager Brian Clough when he took over at Leeds United, the reigning champions in 1974. Synopsis Set in 1960’s and 1970’s England, THE DAMNED UNITED tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough’s doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds United. Previously managed by his bitter rival Don Revie, and on the back of their most successful period ever as a football club, Leeds was perceived by many to represent a new aggressive and cynical style of football - an anathema to the principled yet flamboyant Brian Clough, who had achieved astonishing success as manager of Hartlepool and Derby County building teams in his own vision with trusty lieutenant Peter Taylor. Taking the Leeds job without Taylor by his side, with a changing room full of what in his mind were still Don’s boys, would lead to an unheralded examination of Clough’s belligerence and brilliance over 44 days. This is that story. The story of The Damned United. THE DAMNED UNITED stars Michael Sheen (The Deal, The Queen, Frost/Nixon) as the legendary, opinionated football manager Brian Clough with Timothy Spall (Secrets and Lies, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sweeney Todd) as his right hand man, only friend, and crutch Peter Taylor. Colm Meaney (Layer Cake, Intermission, The Commitments) plays Clough’s nemesis Don Revie, Jim Broadbent plays Sam Longson, Derby Chairman. Stephen Graham plays Leeds Captain Billy Bremner and Peter McDonald his midfield partner Johnny Giles. Adapted for the screen by Peter Morgan (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland, Frost/Nixon) from the best-selling and critically acclaimed novel by David Peace. Directed by Tom Hooper (John Adams, Longford, Elizabeth I). and produced by Andy Harries. Christine Langan, Hugo Heppell and Peter Morgan are executive producers. Ben Smithard (Cranford) is the director of photography, costumes are by Mike O’Neill (Elizabeth I), Jan Archibald (La Vie En Rose) is hair and make-up designer, Eve Stewart (Topsy Turvy) is production designer. THE DAMNED UNITED was filmed on locations throughout Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Majorca.

Long Synopsis July 1974. Don Revie, who over the course of 13 years has led Leeds to their most successful period as a football club which culminated in another League Championship, announces that he is taking the job of England Manager. A few days later and surprise of suprises, Brian Clough the young, cocky, outspoken and flamboyant former manager of Derby County has taken the job. He starts his reign with an appearance on Calendar, the local news programme where he denigrates what he regarded as the cynical and aggressive style of Leeds United and everything that they achieved under Don Revie. He then meets the players at the training ground and unsurprisingly some of them are not too happy to see him. The players weren’t the only part of the Leeds set-up who were annoyed by what Brian said on Yorkshire TV. Clough gets called into the boardroom. Manny Cussins, the Leeds Chairman leads the inquisition and from Clough’s belligerent responses concludes that Brian’s motives for taking the job could be something to do with an intense sense of rivalry that he feels with Don Revie. 1968. Brian Clough is managing Derby County, currently residing in the Second Division. Derby get drawn in the FA Cup against the mighty Leeds United who are currently riding high at the summit of English football, top of the First Division. This delights the Chairman Sam Longson, the revenues from the home fixture will bring financial gain to Derby County. In preparation for the biggest game in Brian Clough’s managerial life, he personally monitors the preparation of the whole ground and stadium to ensure everything is perfect for his high-flying guests. It’s the day of the game and Brian, his assistant manager Peter Taylor, and his stalwart trainer Jimmy Gordon come out meet the Leeds team... but the Leeds team have left the coach 100 yards before reaching the ground. They can’t have run out of petrol can they? Jimmy informs Brian and Peter that it is one of many of Don’s superstitions. As they arrive at the ground Brian holds his hand out to greet the mighty Don Revie but gets brushed aside as the latter is far too deep in conversation talking tactics with his trainers. Leeds win the game 2-0 and at the final whistle Clough gets ignored again by Revie. Clough doesn’t understand. Is it something personal? Taylor advises him to let it rest and turns the topic to finding Derby County a player who can help them get promoted to the top tier of English Football. Brian’s Sunday lunch is interrupted by a call from Peter who has found him a player who can improve the team, Dave Mackay. But Dave is about to sign a deal the next morning to hang up his boots and take a management role. Abandoning his long suffering family and his freshly served lunch, Clough jumps straight in the car and off down the motorway to North London to sign him immediately. At training Sam Longson storms up to Clough fuming about the money spent on the old man Mackay, let alone the other two signings John McGovern and John O’Hare. But the three new signings improve

Derby’s fortunes immeasurably and form a spine on which the Second Division Championship is won that season. Leeds United also wins the First Division that season and during the celebration at Sam Longson’s house, Don Revie appears on TV to collect his English Manager of the Year award. Following the snub in the FA Cup earlier that season Clough now has a chance to exact his revenge and pit his skills against Revie in the top tier. 1974. Back to the Leeds training ground and despite the damage caused by his candid Calendar TV interview, Clough gives a dressing down to the Championship winning Leeds team, accusing them of cheating their way to every single one of their achievements. After getting that off his chest, he starts his first training session with a game of 7-a side and seeing that they are one short decides to relive his glory days as a player and make up the numbers. But Clough’s lack of popularity leaves him vulnerable and Central Defender Norman Hunter flattens Clough with a crunching tackle. Following the training session Clough overhears some of the Leeds players mocking him. 1969. Clough takes his newly promoted Derby team to Elland Road in their First Division League encounter, but they get thrashed 5-0. They need new blood and despite Sam Longson going apoplectic, Derby County have now signed Colin Todd, Archie Gemmell and Terry Hennesey. 1972. Derby County host Leeds again in the First Division. Clough can’t watch the game, he hear three roars, the last at 4.55pm. It must be full time. He runs out to meet Taylor who confirms that Derby won 2-1, a result indeed. Derby go on to have a terrific rest of the season and win the First Division title, a fantastic achievement and a signal that Brian Howard Clough is something special. August, 1974. Clough’s first game in charge of Leeds is at Wembley in the Charity Shield against Liverpool. Clough gives his Leeds players his first pre-match team talk, he wants to see changes and see them ‘playing with a smile’ – it is not well received by all... there is still an element of resistance amongst the Leeds team... Back on the pitch, the captain Billy Bremner starts fighting with Liverpool’s Kevin Keegan, they both get sent off and Leeds lose their first game under Brian Clough. 1974. Following the Charity Shield fight with Keegan, Brian Clough and Billy Bremner get called in front of the FA, and the latter gets fined and suspended for 11 weeks. Without his star player and captain, Clough is in disarray. He calls Peter Taylor and begs him to join him at Leeds, at a loss without his right hand man. 1973. Derby host Leeds again, five days before a crucial European Cup semi-final against Juventus. Derby Chairman Sam Longson senses the Leeds teams menacing intent as they get off the team bus, he tries to persuade Clough to change the team, but the latter’s stubbornness and overriding sense of rivalry with Don Revie prevents any interference. The game starts and Leeds are seen by many as at their cynical worst, sending a number of

Derby players to treatment table and decimating their squad for their forthcoming European encounter. Five days later, Derby lose 3-1 to Juventus. In his post match interview Clough is delivering his rant against Longson when Peter Taylor collapses holding his chest. 1973. Following the post match rant, Sam Longson has imposed a gagging order on Clough. Clough visits Taylor in hospital and shows him their resignation letter to the Derby board in response to Longson’s actions. Taylor is disappointed to say the least, he likes and needs the security and hopes it’s just a draft. It’s not. Clough has submitted it. Longson accepts the resignations and despite protestations from the fans and a letter from the key players, it’s too late, Dave Mackay has taken the Derby Manager’s job. Without Taylor’s nous and insight he goes back to what he knows, and pops into his old stomping ground at Derby County where Dave Mackay is now manager. He buys John O’Hare and John McGovern. He then goes on to buy young striking sensation Duncan Mackenzie from Nottingham Forest for an English record transfer fee. He asks the three new signings to be his eyes and ears in the Leeds dressing room. The new transfers unsurprisingly upsets some of the Leeds senior players who question Clough’s preparation for the forthcoming game on Saturday against Queens Park Rangers. Leeds lose… The writing is on the wall. Later that night, a little worse for wear Clough calls Revie at 2am to tell Revie that he believes the Leeds players won’t play for him like they did for under ‘Daddy Don’. Revie tells Clough get off the phone and to not call him again. 1973. Jobless, Clough and Taylor discuss the future, when they receive a call from Mike Bamber, Chairman of Brighton and Hove Albion. Clough and Taylor meet with Bamber. He offers them jobs on very healthy salaries, but Clough before he accepts wants a holiday with Taylor on Bamber’s coin to Majorca to help make his mind up. As he unwinds on the holiday and resolves his future at Brighton, he is found by Keith Archer, secretary of Leeds United who offers him the job of being Don Revie’s successor at Leeds. Clough enticed by the offer tries to persuade Taylor to join him at Leeds, Taylor won’t, he has his health and financial security to consider. Taylor points out that Clough’s greed and overarching ambition are the ruin of him and reminds Clough that he hates Leeds and everything they stand for. Clough reacts angrily to this, harsh words are said and Clough and Taylor’s relationship is in tatters. 1974. Leeds lose another game this time to Luton Town, they are now second from bottom. Manny Cussins assembles the team and Clough in the Players Lounge for a ‘clear the air’ session. Bremner requests that Clough leave the room so the players views can be aired freely. Cussins to Clough’s dismay accepts the request. Some of the players tell the Board that they feel Clough, who is listening outside is just not good enough and no match for Don Revie. 1974. The Leeds Board decide the inevitable, but Clough secures a severance deal that anyone could be proud of. Out of the Leeds job after just 44 days, he agrees to go back on to Calendar News, the local television news programme to put his side of the story across. But he’s been stitched right up,

Don Revie is a surprise guest on the show. During the televised discussion it is outed that Clough has a personal vendetta with Revie that goes all the way back to the Derby-Leeds FA Cup game on January 27th 1968 when Revie refused to shake his hand. Revie was oblivious to this, and on air six years later they finally shake hands. Clough has come off looking pretty silly and Revie gives him a truth session that opens Clough’s eyes. He drives down with his sons to see Peter Taylor in Brighton to make his amends. Taylor makes Clough go down on his knees and beg for Taylor’s acceptance and forgiveness, he‘s going to milk this for all its worth. Don Revie, after an unsuccessful run as England manager, moved to Saudi Arabia for the twilight of his managerial career under allegations of corruption and fraud. Clough and Taylor are reunited, they take the reins at Nottingham Forest and they go on to win the European Cup in 1979 and again in 1980. A feat which has not been matched by an English manager since.

About The Production David Peace’s extraordinary novel ‘The Damned Utd’ was published in August 2006 and was lauded by critics on its release, described by Rick Broadbent from The Times “probably the best novel ever written about sport” and by The Observer “as the book that brought legend back to life.” ‘The Damned Utd’ went on to be nominated for the Granta Best of Young British Novelist Award. Critics were not the only people to pick up on the audacious book. Stephen Frears who had worked with screenwriter Peter Morgan, producer Andy Harries, actor Michael Sheen and Executive Producer Christine Langan on THE DEAL and THE QUEEN, also picked up a copy and later, at the Venice Film Festival, where THE QUEEN was being triumphantly received, he lent Peter Morgan his copy. Peter whose first play FROST/NIXON, which like THE QUEEN, THE DEAL and LONGFORD examined, presupposed and dramatised an important event in recent British history, had just opened to rave reviews at the Donmar Warehouse. Peter devoured the book in a couple of days and was invigorated by what he read, “I felt really excited when I read what David Peace had done, I felt that another writer is on the same sort of journey as me. I felt collegiate. I really felt the way he was fictionalising real events and allowing himself to write Clough like a fictional character and mix that with the careful research that he’d done, I suddenly thought wow, this really fits in with what I do, I felt very creatively connected to him.” Michael Sheen was also out in Venice for his performance as Tony Blair in THE QUEEN and on the plane back with Peter Morgan read through various sections of the book and excitedly agreed that this would be their next project together; with Morgan adapting the novel into a screenplay and Sheen taking the role of the legendary outspoken football manager Brian Clough. Andy Harries who had produced THE DEAL and THE QUEEN would produce. The novel presented Peter with narrative challenges as a lot of the story is told through Brian Clough’s repetitive, paranoid inner monologue. But what excited Peter and became the focus of his screenplay was the ‘love triangle’ between the impudent, dynamic Brian Clough, the loyal assistant Peter Taylor and the dour, superstitious but extremely successful Don Revie. Taking the story out of Clough’s head gave the chance to alter the tone and neutralise some of the criticisms that the novel had received from Clough’s family and friends in inaccurately portraying Clough as a haunted, paranoid, chain-smoking obsessive man, consumed with anger. As Producer Andy Harries expands “We needed to make a slightly different take on Brian Clough than David Peace’s and I think what Peter has done is a script that is altogether lighter, it’s more entertaining, but because you’re not seeing the

film as told through Brian Clough’s mind we were able to push a lot of the darkness out.” With the script and the lead actor in place and with Stephen Frears moving onto CHERI, Tom Hooper who had worked with Morgan and Harries on the BAFTA and Golden Globe winning drama LONGFORD was the natural choice to take the directorial reins. Hooper had just finished the epic “John Adams” for HBO which won a record 13 Emmys and had also directed ELIZABETH I starring Helen Mirren which won him the Emmy for Best Director. Tom Hooper explains what drew him in to the project: “I loved Peter’s script. It’s a great story about friendship between men at its most intense, about this incredible working partnership between Brian Clough and Peter Taylor and this compulsive rivalry with Don Revie which breaks the friendship up. You can almost see the film as a kind of love triangle between three men - Revie, Clough and Taylor. It tells a universal story about one of our great British personalities in a way that I found completely accessible, moving and funny. Hooper goes on to explain “The next thing I did was read David’s book which is such an achievement – the interior voice of Clough that David imagined and created. It’s authentic, it’s powerful, it’s surprising. It’s Clough like you’ve never seen him before. Peter and I both had a real common desire to do justice to the book.” With Michael Sheen lined up as Brian Clough who by now had revisited his role as David Frost in Ron Howard’s film adaptation of Peter Morgan’s FROST/NIXON, Tom Hooper and Andy Harries set out to cast the three other principal roles. For the film to succeed and be bought by audiences and critics alike, the physical likenesses had to be as strong as possible. With a script based on real life people set in the not to distant past of which there is good deal of archive material around, there would be close inspection from all quarters when casting was announced. Thankfully, the casting was fairly straight forward and simple, each of the final selection being the first and obvious choice of the production team. The role of Sam Longson had been earmarked pretty much from the outset. Although out of the four principal roles there was the least amount of archive material on Longson, it was evident in the pictures and footage that there was around, that Longson bore a striking facial resemblance to Jim Broadbent. Jim had recently won a Golden Globe and TV BAFTA for his titular role in LONGFORD for which Peter Morgan wrote the screenplay, Tom Hooper directed and Andy Harries executive produced, so it was a mere formality that Jim could work with a team that helped him produce arguably one of his finest performances. Through working on LONGFORD with Tom, Jim was delighted to renew his working relationship with the young gifted director, “Tom’s great with actors, he has a very acute eye, he watches very carefully what’s going on, he cares a great deal about the shot and about the performances. Which is what you want and need as an actor, to stop you slipping into the easy route.”

In the early days when Peter was working on the preliminary stages of the script and the production team were looking through all the archive material there was around, it was evident from the material on Peter Taylor that he bore a great deal of physical similarities to one of Britain’s greatest character actors Timothy Spall. Andy Harries in his role as Head of Drama at Granada had worked with Tim on Jimmy McGovern’s award-winning ensemble drama THE STREET and the critically praised hangman drama PIERREPOINT, Andy was well aware of the skills that Tim brings to the table which were imperative for the character of Peter Taylor “he had all the qualities we were looking for Taylor: warmth, heart, a sense of reliability and loyalty.” Rounding out the casting of the four principals was Irish actor Colm Meaney who secured the role of Clough’s nemesis Don Revie, as Andy Harries explains “Colm Meaney was such a dead ringer for Don Revie it was a no brainer, he is also a terrific actor. So the key casting was very straight forward - and once all their other commitments had been sorted we were on.” In May 2008 with production a month away the footballers were cast. Stephen Graham whose magnetic performance as Commo in Shane Meadow’s THIS IS ENGLAND was heaped with praise was cast to play the talismanic Leeds captain Billy Bremner, Peter McDonald took the part of his midfield partner Johnny Giles, Mark Cameron rounded out the senior establishment players as Norman ‘Bites yer legs’ Hunter. SKINS actor Joe Dempsie was cast as the exciting striking prospect Duncan Mackenzie, Brian Clough’s record signing during his brief tenure at Leeds. Key Derby players were cast with Martin Compston as John O’Hare and Colin Harris as John McGovern, the two players who followed Clough from Derby County to Leeds. Giles Alderson took the role of “the almighty Colin Todd, the best technical player in the country” (copyright Brian Clough). ROB ROY actor Brian McCardie was cast as the influential Dave Mackay whilst the roles of Archie Gemmill and Terry Hennessey were taken by Stewart Robertson and Laurie Rea respectively. A fortnight before the shooting started open auditions for the rest of the Leeds and Derby team players were held at Garforth Town, the semi-professional football club based near Leeds, owned by the film’s Football Co-ordinator and Choreographer Simon Clifford. The key criteria to casting was twofold: an ability to play football to a sufficient standard to skilfully recreate and mimic the archive footage of the games featured in the film, also imperative was as close a physical resemblance as possible. The most prominent of these roles to be filled were Leeds ’74 team and within a couple of days the infamous league championship winning side which schoolboys across the country of the era could recite off pat were filled: in goal David Harvey (Danny Tomlinson), the back four of Paul Reaney (Leslie Maylott), Norman Hunter (Mark Cameron), Gordon McQueen (John Savage) and Trevor Cherry (Tom Ramsbottom). In midfield Peter Lorimer (Matthew Storton), Billy Bremner (Stephen Graham), Johnny Giles (Peter McDonald) and utility player Paul Madeley (Chris Moore). Up front the pairing of Allan Clarke (Alex Harker) and Joe Jordan (Craig Williams) completed the side who for six and half brief weeks were Brian Clough’s charges. The Leeds squad

was rounded out in a wonderful casting coup by Stuart Gray, Eddie Gray’s real life son playing his father in the film. All of those cast as Leeds or Derby players then went through a two week training camp where football choreographer Simon Clifford, who was part of Clive Woodward’s set up at Southampton FC and whose previous credits as football co-ordinator on films included the hit comedy BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, took the actors and semi-pro’s through their paces and trained them up to play football, 1970’s style. Simon had immersed himself in videos and DVD’s of football from the period and as he noted “Some of the movements which players use to beat opponents were not used then, it was a little bit more physical, a little more direct. If the football doesn’t look right the whole film can fall flat.” With the football scenes rehearsed ready for shooting, Tom Hooper and Andy Harries were making the final casting decisions for the film. Casting was completed with Liz Carling playing Barbara Clough, Brian’s stable and supportive wife, Brian’s young sons Nigel and Simon were played by Oliver Stokes and Ryan Day, his daughter Elizabeth by Isabella Eades-Jones. Henry Goodman took the role of Manny Cussins, the Leeds Chairman of the time, Sheffield actress Gillian Waugh the role of Lilian, Peter Taylor’s loving wife. Maurice Roeves played Jimmy Gordon, Brian Clough’s stalwart and ever-present trainer. Shooting commenced in the football close season on Sunday 25 May 2008 at Saltergate, doubling as the Baseball Ground, Derby County’s home ground in the 1970’s. Saltergate, home of Chesterfield FC is generally regarded to be one of the oldest football league grounds still in use, having had its inauguration in 1871. Saltergate offered the production unique criteria essential for the shoot. A football pitch to re-enact all the matches on, terracing for standing supporters behind both goals which the Baseball Ground had at the time and finally, and arguably the piece de resistance was the wonderful wood panelling, installed in the 1960’s and unaltered since then which ran through the boardroom, tea room, offices and lounge. The main work that Eve Stewart, Production Designer and her team had to undertake at Saltergate was to replace the Chesterfield blue across the terracing, seating and stadia entrance points with a coat of dark green paint to replicate the Baseball Ground. The modern 21st century goals were replaced with period goalposts and netting, the current advertising hoardings which circle the pitch as they do all current football grounds were of course removed and replaced with more discreet period adverts for ‘Havoline’ and ‘Texaco’, the game not at the full throes of commercialism as it is now. After two weeks production moved to Leeds, utilising the current ITV Yorkshire Studios to film the two Calendar News interviews that bookend the script and film. In a coup for the production, Leeds United had granted the use of Elland Road for the film. Elland Road unlike Saltergate is a stadium that during the 1990’s and the advent of the Premiership saw a lot of modernisation, however the South West corner remains largely untouched , it was the original 1970’s entrance to the ground as evidenced by archive

footage. Production designed and replicated the 10’ x 30’ Leeds United A.F.C. period signage and erected it in this corner to complete the look. A training pitch of turf was laid in the exact location where it stood in the 1970’s next to the ground by the Industrial Estate. The only scenes that couldn’t be shot at Elland Road were the Boardroom, Players Lounge and Manager’s Office but these were skilfully recreated in a disused police station in Bradford. Carefully chosen locations in Scarborough were chosen to double as Peter Taylor’s Brighton residence and a wonderful untouched property in Saddleworth was used as the Clough family home, the shoot culminated in Majorca where Clough and Taylor take a holiday on the Brighton Chairman’s expense to ruminate over whether to take the drop down to the Third Division following their resignation from Derby County. Filming in Majorca with a reduced crew took place over two days at Santa Ponca with the shoot wrapping on Friday 4th July 2008. The shoot length just a couple of days shy of Brian Clough’s actual reign as manager at Leeds United… The Appeal of the Story – When is a football film not a football film? Is “The Damned United” a football film or a character study? The film’s central character is a fascinating man, a man of extremes. Tom Hooper explains the joy of making a film about Brian Clough “If you have a screenplay where the characters are a bit weak or two dimensional there is nowhere really for the director to go to deepen the characters. But with Brian Clough you have everywhere to go. He’s so contradictory, he’s so outspoken, so extraordinary. People want to talk about Brian Clough because he’s enigmatic, a bit of a riddle and the nation loves him. What’s so great about making a film about Brian Clough is that he’s such a rich character. His complexity is inexhaustible and that makes him perfect for a central character.” Adding to this tapestry was the fact that he was also a man who explored new territory for his industry. Michael Sheen who fills the big man’s shoes explains “He had this incredible wit and charm. He was a master manipulator of the media before anyone in the game had done that, and no-one probably has done since.” Peter Morgan and Tom Hooper were keen to illuminate this recognizable side of Clough which endeared him to the general public in the screenplay and eventual final film. Criticisms that football films never succeed and that you can never recreate the unscripted drama of sport have are countered by producer Andy Harries, “Part of the trick is to not feature football too much, we’ve chosen judicious moments and we’re playing a lot of it off reaction shots off Clough and Taylor so you’re watching football, you’re seeing football but you’re not emotionally involved in the game, you’re emotionally involved in their watching it - and through their reactions you know what’s happening on the pitch.” So it’s a film about football, about men who live, breathe, eat, sleep, football. But yet it’s not, it’s about so much more than that, as Tim Spall accurately

explains “It’s a very interesting exploration of ambition, single–mindedness, a sporting marriage, and a great rivalry. All these aspects which are universal.” But in a film featuring an almost exclusively male cast about a predominately male pastime can the film expect to appeal to women, where’s the romance? Peter Morgan explains “I saw it right from the beginning as a love story between Clough and Peter Taylor.” an affair that is torn apart by Brian Clough’s burning ambition to equal and better his nemesis, Don Revie, the final corner of the love triangle. Through the film’s flashback structure the audience gets to see the burgeoning romance during the early Derby days between Clough and Taylor, then contrasting with Clough’s time at Leeds in 1974 and how their relationship has changed. Michael Sheen explains “I think the relationship between Clough and Taylor is incredibly complex, it’s codependent, it’s also one that changes over time. Taylor says that they were very incompatible people that they had nothing in common other than an obsession for talking, watching, analysing and dreaming about football, which brought them incredibly close together. But then over time that relationship changed in that Taylor was no longer the father figure, Clough’s personality, that dynamic, charismatic, firebrand kind of personality and Taylor someone happier to sit back and not have the limelight on him but still incredibly insightful and driven as Clough - as two they locked together, they fitted together but all kind of resentments and dark moments crept into it. It’s not an overstatement to say it’s as complex as marriage. Clough’s home life seems incredibly solid and secure, his wife Barbara gave him a stability, a solidity in his life: the family life, that was incredibly important to him even though he spent a lot of time away from them. All the fireworks seems to happen between him and Taylor” So the film has it share of romance, of two souls who clearly function better when they are together and can’t live properly without each other. But yet the narrative has so much more to offer than that. There is an overreaching sense of tragedy to the situation that Brian Clough finds himself in. One that’s is created by his own ego, his own ambition to be the best, to make up for his own cut-short playing career... But arguably the most important and self-propelling reason was to better his rival, his nemesis, the man who had achieved such success but in such a negative style, Clough saw it as his duty to correct that. Michael Sheen explains the essence of the story and the doomed trajectory of the narrative “If his driving force is to beat Revie, if he’s offered Revie’s job, he has to say yes to it, because if he says no, Revie’s beaten him. He has to believe that he can do what Revie did and better, so in a way it’s a trap that he’s set for himself. That when the job is offered to him he can do nothing but walk into the gates of hell and become manager of The Damned United.” Peter Morgan’s script and Tom Hooper’s resulting film encompass all these factors: tragedy, romance, ambition, rivalry – universal emotions that go beyond the world of football, as Colm Meaney observes “Peter Morgan has done an amazing job, on paper it’s a very difficult book to film, it takes place inside Brian Clough’s head… But it was the personal battle between the two,

Revie and Clough these two opposing yet fascinating characters that creates real drama, regardless of whether you’re a football fan or not.” Director Tom Hooper has the final word on how he expects the public to receive the film “I think it’s an intriguing study of one of Britain’s great 20th century sporting icons. Anyone interested in football will be fascinated by Brian Clough. Anyone not interested in football will be fascinated by this great and complex man. I think it’s a very moving story of friendship, jealousy and betrayal. Films exploring professional rivalry and professional jealousy are rare. But rivalry and jealousy are what everybody has to deal with in almost every job – it’s a universal story.”

Brian Clough - A Brief Potted History of the Man and his Achievements Born in Middlesborough, England. Brian Howard Clough (1935-2004) was a very talented and prolific striker whose playing career was tragically cut short in his prime after suffering a cruciate ligament injury in 1962 playing for Sunderland in a league game against Bury. Throughout his playing career at Middlesborough and then Sunderland, he scored a very impressive 251 goals in 274 games. Prior to his injury he also made two appearances for England but did not make the scoresheet. Clough returned to Sunderland two years later but could only manage three games hanging up his boots. He started his managerial career the following year in 1965 at Hartlepool United and in doing so became the youngest manager in the League. Peter Taylor, seven years his senior became his assistant manager. The two of them guided Hartlepool who for years had been hovering just above relegation from the Football League to an eighth place finish. This caught the eye of Derby County’s chairman Sam Longson who snapped the pair up in 1967. Derby County had for years been lucky to escape relegation to Division Three. In their second season in charge Derby were promoted as Champions of Division Two to the top tier. Within three seasons Clough and Taylor took Derby County to unheralded heights and won the Division One title. The following season they took Derby County to the semi-finals of the European Cup where they lost to Juventus in controversial circumstances as it later emerged that the West German referee received ‘gifts’ from the victors. Clough’s outspoken nature eventually led to an irrepairable rift with Longson and the Derby board leading to Clough and Taylor resigning in October 1973. A brief but unsuccessful spell at Division Three’s Brighton and Hove Albion saw out the rest of that season and upon Don Revie’s acceptance of the England manager’s job in July 1974, Brian Clough who had previously lambasted and denigrated Leeds United aggressive style of football took over the reigns of the current League champions. Clough took the job without Peter Taylor, and in his uncompromising way alienated many of the senior players who had the ears of the Leeds board. Clough lasted only 44 days in the job, winning one of only six games and in doing so became Leeds United’s least successful manager ever. Clough soon found employment in January 1975 at Division Two’s Nottingham Forest. He was joined by Peter Taylor in July 1976 and by the end of that season in May 1977, Forest had won promotion to Division One. In their first season in the top tier they did the ‘double’ winning the title by a clear seven points and the League Cup. The following season Forest retained the League Cup, finished runners-up in the League but most impressively won the European Cup beating Swedish champions Malmo in the final. The following season Forest won the European Cup again, this time beating Hamburg. Peter Taylor retired in May 1982 but Clough managed Forest throughout the

1980’s achieving silverware only at the end of the decade in 1989 and 1990 winning back-to-back League Cups. Brian Clough saw Forest into the inaugural year of the Premiership in 1992-1993 but with his alcoholism spiralling out of control Forest were relegated after 16 years in the top flight - all of them under Clough’s stewardship. His retirement was spent battling his alcoholism amongst an implication in a bungs scandal and deep regrets of never reconciling his friendship with Peter Taylor who passed away in October 1990. Brian Clough died of stomach cancer on 20 September 2004.

Brian Clough Quotations I certainly wouldn't say I'm the best manager in the business, but I'm in the top one." On his television appearance on ‘Parkinson’ "As far as I'm concerned you can throw all those medals you've won in the bin, because you won them all by cheating" to the reigning League Champions Leeds United players on his first day as manager. "I'd ask him how he thinks it should be done, have a chat about it for twenty minutes and then decide I was right" On dealing with players disagreeing with his methods. "They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job." On his ability to get things done " This is a terrible day.....for Leeds United" On exiting Elland Road after being sacked after 44 days as manager. "John Robertson was a very unattractive young man. If, one day, I was feeling a bit off colour, I would sit next to him. I was bloody Errol Flynn compared to him, but give him a yard of grass and he was an artist. The Picasso of our game" "If God had intended for us to play football in the clouds he wouldn't have put grass on the ground." On the long ball game. "If a player had said to Bill Shankley 'I've got to speak to my agent', Bill would have hit him. And I would have held him while he hit him." On how the game has changed "They thought I was going to change it lock, stock and barrel. They were shrewd because that's exactly what I would have done" On why he was rejected by the FA for the England job. "Who thought Derby County could be turned into League champions; that any manager could bounce back from getting the bullet after 44 days with a great club and go on to prove himself among the best managers of all time; that what was done at Derby could be repeated at Forest; that after winning one European Cup, we could retain it; that a brash, self-opinionated young footballer, cut down by injury in his prime, would go on to achieve more impressive fame as a brash, highly successful manager?" Putting his career achievements in context in his own inimitable way "What I tell my players about defending a lead is this: 'if you have the ball and you are in their half'... they cannot score" "At last England have appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players." On the appointment of Sven Goran Eriksson as England manager. "I've missed him. He used to make me laugh. He was the best diffuser of a situation I have ever known. I hope he's alright." On the late Peter Taylor.

Cast Biographies Michael Sheen – BRIAN CLOUGH Recognized as one of the most talented of the new generation of British actors, Michael Sheen is equally accomplished on stage and screen. Sheen can currently be seen in the film version of FROST/NIXON, directed by Ron Howard from Peter Morgan’s screen adaptation of his play. The film which has received 5 Oscar and 6 BAFTA nominations, centres on Frost’s quest for the former president to accept a lucrative offer in 1977 to participate in a series of television interviews about the events that led Nixon to resign. He can also be currently seen in UNDERWORLD: THE RISE OF THE LYCANS. Sheen reprises his role as the dark Lycan master, Lucian, who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. The film marks the directing debut of special effects designer Patrick Tatopoulous, UNDERWORLD and UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION exceeded a combined box office of more than $200 million worldwide. Sheen’s other recent films include MUSIC WITHIN, the story of Richard Pimentel, an early champion of the rights of the disabled and a primary activist behind the Americans with Disabilities Act. Sheen plays his best friend Art, a wheelchair-bound genius who uses his wit to deflect the prejudice associated with his twisted form. Prior to MUSIC WITHIN he was featured in Ed Zwick’s BLOOD DIAMOND, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou, and as Prime Minister Tony Blair in Stephen Frears’ acclaimed drama THE QUEEN. Along with the film, Sheen received many accolades for his performance including winning the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He previously portrayed the British Prime Minister, also under Frears’ direction, in the television movie THE DEAL. THE QUEEN marked Sheen’s third collaboration with Frears. Sheen made his feature film debut in the director’s MARY REILLY as Dr. Jekyll’s footman, along with a cast that included Julia Roberts, John Malkovich and Glenn Close. Sheen’s film credits include Ridley Scott¹s KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; LAWS OF ATTRACTION with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore; TIMELINE, directed by Richard Donner; UNDERWORLD; Stephen Fry’s BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS; Shekhar Kapur’s THE FOUR FEATHERS; and WILDE with Stephen Fry and Jude Law. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where, in his second year, Sheen won the coveted Laurence Olivier Bursary for consistently outstanding performances. While still a student at RADA, Sheen landed a starring role opposite Vanessa Redgrave in 1991’s WHEN SHE DANCED, which marked his West End debut. Sheen has since earned an Olivier Award nomination for his performance as Mozart in the West End production of Peter Hall¹s revival of AMADEUS, which he went on to make his Broadway debut in the U.S. production in 1999. He also received Olivier Award nominations for

his performances in LOOK BACK IN ANGER and CALIGULA, the latter for which he won a London Critics Circle Award and the London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor in 2003. He has also received acclaim for his performances in such plays as ROMEO AND JULIET, PEER GYNT and HENRY V. On television, Sheen’s credits include his heart-breaking portrayal of performer Kenneth Williams in the BBC’s KENNETH WILLIAMS: FANTABULOSA! for which Sheen received a BAFTA nomination and the 2006 Royal Television Society Best Actor Award. He also received a 2005 BAFTA-nomination for his performance in DIRTY FILTHY LOVE, a drama in which he starred as an architect struggling to live with his obsessive-compulsive disorder. Most recently on stage, Sheen starred during the summer of 2007 on Broadway in the hit FROST/NIXON, in which he played Frost to Frank Langella’s Nixon. Sheen received a Distinguished Performance Award nomination from the Drama League for his work, among other accolades. This followed the sold-out run in London, where Sheen received nominations for Best Actor from the Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Awards. In the summer of 2008, Sheen filmed THE DAMNED UNITED, the darkly humorous story of Brian Clough’s doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds United in 1974. Most recently, Sheen completed work on the suspense thriller UNTHINKABLE, directed by Gregor Jordan. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss and Sheen, the story centres on a seasoned FBI agent (Moss) in charge of investigating suspected terrorist organizations with Muslim ties. When the FBI brings her in to help a black-ops interrogator (Jackson) with interrogation of an American Muslim man (Sheen), she must face the moral consequences of how far one should go to extract the truth from a prisoner. Sheen is also part of Tim Burton’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND, his much anticipated take on the Lewis Carroll classic. In January, 2009, Sheen was announced on The Queen’s annual honour list as being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contributions to the arts. Born in Wales, Sheen grew up in Port Talbot, the industrial town renowned for producing Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins. Timothy Spall – PETER TAYLOR One of Britain’s best loved and most talented character actors, Timothy Spall has made a name for himself dividing his time between larger ‘Hollywood’ projects and regular collaborations with Mike Leigh. Timothy trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, theatre work follow with the RSC and the National Theatre, however he came to wider British audience’s attention in 1980’s through his role as Barry in the British television series AUF WEIDERSEHEN PET. It was in 1996 in his role as Maurice in Mike Leigh’s SECRETS AND LIES though, which brought Timothy critical acclaim, a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor and a constant demand for his acting services. His next role as Mr Venus in OUR MUTUAL FRIEND also brought a

BAFTA nomination. Roles in Steven Poliakoff’s SHOOTING THE PAST and PERFECT STRANGERS. Timothy’s recent TV roles of note include Danny Boyle’s VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE IN PARADISE (2002), a revisiting of AUF WEIDERSEHEN PET (2004), the title role in PIERREPOINT (2006), Eddie in Jimmy McGovern’s award-winning ensemble series THE STREET (2006), acting alongside his son Rafe in the Andrew Davies adaptation of E.M. Forster’s A ROOM WITH A VIEW (2007) and Fagin in the BBC’s recent OLIVER TWIST (2007). His film roles in the last decade include Kenneth Branagh’s HAMLET and LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, STILL CRAZY, INTIMACY, ROCK STAR, LUCKY BREAK, VANILLA SKY, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, THE LAST SAMURAI, HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNOFRTUNATE EVENTS, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE, ENCHANTED and Tim Burton’s SWEENEY TODD. His performances for Mike Leigh include LIFE IS SWEET, TOPSY TURVY and ALL OR NOTHING. Forthcoming in 2009 include the roles of Peter Pettigrew in HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE, Arthur in HAMMER'S: WAKE WOOD, Donaldson in DESERT FLOWER and Bogis in Julian Fellows' FROM TIME TO TIME. Timothy received an OBE in 1999. Colm Meaney – DON REVIE With credits spanning personal projects in his birthplace Ireland, Hollywood and beyond, Colm Meaney’s extensive acting career began when he joined the Irish National Theatre spending 8 years in England touring with several theatre companies. His role as Miles O’Brien in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION and DEEP SPACE NINE spanned over 12 years, in that time making more appearances in that franchise than any other actor bar Michael Dorn. Colm starred as the father in Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown trilogy, which included Alan Parker’s THE COMMITMENTS, and two others directed by Stephen Frears, THE SNAPPER (for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor) and THE VAN. In particular his role as Jimmy Rabbitte Sr in the hugely successful THE COMMITMENTS courted Hollywood attention and a role in FAR AND AWAY starring alongside Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman soon followed. Other film roles of note include THE ENGLISHMAN WHO WENT UP A HILL BUT CAME DOWN A MOUNTAIN, CON AIR, HOW HARRY BECAME A TREE, INTERMISSION and LAYER CAKE. He was most recently seen in the award-winning Gaelic film KINGS and THREE AND OUT. Colm recently revisited the London stage in 2007 opposite Kevin Spacey and Eve Best in Eugene O’Neill’s MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN. Colm is currently filming LAW ABIDING CITIZEN with Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. Jim Broadbent – SAM LONGSON

Academy award winner Jim Broadbent is without doubt one of the finest actors of his generation. His touching performance as Iris Murdoch’s patient and long-suffering husband John Bayley earned Jim the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. Feature film credits include LITTLE VOICE, TOPSY TURVY, MOULIN ROUGE, BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY, GANGS OF NEW YORK, THE GATHERING STORM, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, VANITY FAIR, VERA DRAKE, BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. In 2006 Jim took the title role in the Tom Hooper directed LONGFORD which earned him the TV BAFTA for Best Actor. 2007 saw performances in HOT FUZZ and the lead in AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?. Jim was seen on the big screen in 2008 as Dean Charles Stanforth in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL and Fenoglio in INKHEART. 2009 will see Jim play King William in THE YOUNG VICTORIA and Horace Slughorn in HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE. His extensive theatre and television work includes National Theatre productions of Martin McDonagh’s THE PILLOWMAN and the stage adaptation of THEATRE OF BLOOD, Jimmy McGovern's THE STREET for ITV and the BBC's EINSTEIN AND EDDINGTON.

Crew Biographies Tom Hooper – Director Tom Hooper has had an unprecedented run of success at the Golden Globes recently, winning the Golden Globe for best movie or mini-series made for television for the last three years in a row. On top of that, both his actors and actresses have won Golden Globes for their performances three years running. JOHN ADAMS, as well as winning four Golden Globes also won 13 Emmys, the most Emmys ever awarded to a programme in a single year in the history of the Academy. Based on the best selling Pulitzer prize winning biography by David McCullough, JOHN ADAMS tells the story of the American Revolution through the eyes of the second president of the United States. Tom Hooper directed all nine hours of the $100m mini-series which stars Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney and was executive produced by Tom Hanks for HBO. Tom Hooper’s LONGFORD, about Lord Longford's relationship with Myra Hindley, won Golden Globes for Jim Broadbent, Samantha Morton and for best TV film. It was written by Peter Morgan and produced by Andy Harries for HBO/Channel 4. Hooper won the Emmy® award for directing ELIZABETH I, starring Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons. The HBO/Channel 4 miniseries won three Golden Globes and nine Emmy® Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries and best actress for Helen Mirrren. Hooper was nominated for a Best Director Emmy® for PRIME SUSPECT - THE LAST WITNESS, starring Helen Mirren. He directed Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor in the BAFTA-nominated TV film RED DUST. Hooper's TV work also includes DANIEL DERONDA, which won the Best Miniseries award at the 2003 Banff TV Festival, LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE, for which Alan Bates was BAFTA nominated, and the multi award-winning COLD FEET. 36 year old Hooper started making films at the age of 13, directed his first short film for Channel 4 TV at age 18, and has directed theatre as well as over 100 TV commercials. THE DAMNED UNITED is Tom’s first British feature film and his latest collaboration with producer Andy Harries and writer Peter Morgan following on from the success of LONGFORD. Andy Harries - Producer THE DAMNED UNITED sees producer Andy Harries continue his long-standing professional relationships with many key elements on the film most notably writer Peter Morgan and director Tom Hooper.

In May 2007 Andy Harries departed Granada to set up his own production company Left Bank Pictures. In a significant collaboration for Andy and his start-up company, BBC Worldwide the commercial arm of the BBC own a 25% equity stake. Left Bank Pictures has produced the acclaimed BBC detective series, WALLANDER starring Kenneth Branagh and is currently in production on MARRIED, SINGLE, OTHER for ITV and STRIKEBACK for Sky. THE DAMNED UNITED is the first feature film for Left Bank Pictures. The unique relationship between Andy Harries and Peter Morgan began at Granada. Andy Harries was appointed Controller of Drama and Comedy at Granada in 2000, having spent seven years creating and running Granada’s acclaimed Comedy Department. In his capacity as Controller of Comedy, he oversaw the production of numerous multi-award winning programmes including five series of COLD FEET (BAFTA, Best Drama 2002), THE MRS MERTON SHOW (1997 BAFTA Best Talk Show) and THE ROYLE FAMILY for BBC1 (2000 BAFTA Situation Comedy). As Controller of Drama, Comedy and Factual Drama, Andy’s departmental output was prolific. Productions ranged from singles such as HOT MONEY and MY BEAUTIFUL SON (2002 BAFTA Best Actress for Julie Walters) to the adaptations of Galsworthy’s THE FORSYTE SAGA and Pasternak’s epic love story DR ZHIVAGO, starring Keira Knightley and Sam Neill. In 2003, Andy executive produced THE DEAL (BAFTA, Best Single Drama 2003), written by Peter Morgan and starring Michael Sheen for Channel 4. He also executive produced HENRY VIII written by Peter Morgan starring Ray Winstone and Helena Bonham Carter, the critically acclaimed factual dramas WALL OF SILENCE and DANIELLE CABLE: EYEWITNESS, and the award-winning PRIME SUSPECT 6 starring Helen Mirren. Collaborating with writer Peter Morgan again Andy produced THE QUEEN in 2006 which proved to be a commercial and critical hit all over the world. Award highlights for the film included Best Actress and Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival and at the Golden Globes. Best Film and Best Actress at the BAFTA’s and Best Actress at the Academy Awards. In another collaboration with Peter Morgan and this time Tom Hooper, Andy executive produced LONGFORD starring Jim Broadbent, the TV film about the eccentric aristocrat who took pity on serial killer Myra Hindley took home 3 Golden Globes, 3 BAFTA Awards and received 5 Emmy Award nominations. Grainne Marmion – Co-Producer Belfast born Grainne Marmion started her producing career with Working Title on an adaptation of Maeve Binchy’s international best-seller ECHOES before producing the multi-award winning TV series THE BORROWERS. She continued her work with Working Title on further award winning productions such as the feature film THAT EYE, THE SKY. In 1998 she scored a hit on both sides of the Atlantic with Peter Morgan's first commissioned feature script, the romantic comedy MARTHA, MEET FRANK, DANIEL AND LAURENCE . Following that success Grainne took a role as a Production

Executive for the BBC where she oversaw the award-winning box office hit BILLY ELLIOT, NCS: MANHUNT and PERFECT STRANGERS. Grainne moved back into TV producing IN 2003 on GIRLS IN LOVE and PULLING MOVES. Her most recent credits include producing the critically acclaimed and Golden Globe nominated THE STATE WITHIN and the all-star period drama LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD that aired on British television screens in 2008. She is currently producing Andrea Levy's award winning novel SMALL ISLAND for Ruby TV and BBC. Lee Morris - Co-Producer Lee Morris has worked on many high profile and award winning BBC television dramas. His credits as Line Producer include: THE LOST WORLD, THE LONG FIRM, CHARLES ll, ARCHANGEL, MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS, MACBETH, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and THE SINS. Previously, he collaborated with Tom Hooper on the award winning DANIEL DERONDA. Most recently, he has produced A NUMBER and MY ZINC BED for HBO Films/BBC Films. Christine Langan - Executive Producer Christine Langan started her career with British Screen working for Tessa Ross. She moved to Granada in 1993, where she first worked as a Script Editor across a range of comedy projects then moving on to produce the pilot and the first three series of COLD FEET, Granada’s hugely successful comedy drama, which has been screened in 33 countries and has won countless awards worldwide. It was there at Granada where she commenced her long-standing professional relationship with Andy Harries. In 2002 she returned to Granada TV as an executive producer after two years away freelancing, during which time she produced the ITV1 comedy drama I SAW YOU starring Fay Ripley and Paul Rhys and produced and directed RESCUE ME, the BBC1 comedy starring Sally Phillips. Her first project upon her return to Granada was as Executive Producer on WATERMELON, a romantic comedy starring Anna Friel. She followed this by collaborating with Andy Harries and producing THE DEAL from Peter Morgan’s groundbreaking script. In 2004, Christine executive produced LIE WITH ME, a two-part thriller directed by Susanna White. She followed this by producing the critically acclaimed drama DIRTY FILTHY LOVE starring Michael Sheen, receiving a BAFTA nomination and an RTS Award for Best Single Drama. In 2005 she produced the critically lauded PIERREPOINT, starring Timothy Spall for which Chrstine received a BAFTA Carl Foreman nomination. In 2005/6 Christine and Andy both collaborated with Peter Morgan once again producing THE QUEEN which brought home many awards across the Globe, highlights included winning Best Actress and Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival and at the Golden Globes. Best Film and Best Actress at the BAFTA’s and Best Actress at the Academy Awards.

In September 2006, Christine took up a new role as Producer/Executive Producer with BBC Films, this allowed her continue her working relationship with Peter Morgan this time on THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL which was released in cinemas in February 2008. Other film projects she has exec-produced during her tenure are: THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS, THE DUCHESS, IS THERE ANYBODY THERE?, BRIGHT STAR, IN THE LOOP and THE DAMNED UNITED. Christine now holds the position of Commisioning Editor at BBC Films. Hugo Heppell – Executive Producer Hugo Heppell has been Head of Production at Screen Yorkshire since 2003, during which time he has been associated with 18 feature films including BAFTA and BIFA winning THIS IS ENGLAND, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, and the Warp X low budget slate. As well as THE DAMNED UNITED, Hugo is Executive Producer on the three RED RIDING films, 1974, 1980 and 1983, also adapted from the bestselling novels of David Peace for Channel 4. Previously, Hugo taught screenwriting in the UK, Portugal and Cuba, and produced independent films in New York. Peter Morgan – Screenplay and Executive Producer Multi Award-winning writer Peter Morgan has written extensively for film and television. Having started his screenwriting career with an Academy Award nomination for his script for the Peter Cattaneo directed short film DEAR ROSIE. He came to prominence and household recognition for his groundbreaking script on the BAFTA award-winning TV film THE DEAL, produced by Andy Harries and Christine Langan, it presupposed and recreated the infamous agreement in an Islington restaurant between Tony Blair played by Michael Sheen and Gordon Brown played by David Morrisey on who would lead the Labour party to government and take the role of British Prime Minister. Peter’s original screenplay for THE QUEEN which focused on the immediate aftermath of Princess Diana’s death again teamed him with Andy and Christine with Michael Sheen reviving his role as Tony Blair. It earnt Peter the Best Screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival, a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay in a Motion Picture, Peter also received Best Original Screenplay nominations at the Academy and BAFTA Awards. His adaptation with Jeremy Brock of THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND for director Kevin Macdonald in the same year earnt Peter the BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best British Film. Forest Whitaker for his portrayal of Idi Amin in the film won the Best Actor Oscar and BAFTA amongst many other accolades. Peter’s adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s bestseller of THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL starred Scarlett Johannsen, Natalie Portman and Eric Bana and appeared in cinemas in February 2008. His script for LONGFORD which Tom Hooper directed, won Peter a TV BAFTA and a Royal Television Society Award for Best Writer. Peter Morgan’s

scripts for THE JURY and HENRY VIII both directed by Pete Travis also received awards recognition. The former winning Best Drama at the Reims International Festival and Best Drama at the CRS Awards, whilst the latter won the Best Drama International Emmy in 2004. The Jury is now being remade by Fox 2000 as a feature film. His debut play FROST/NIXON starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in September 2006, after rave reviews and a sold-out run it subsequently transferred to the West End and then on to Broadway. Ron Howard has directed the film adaptation which Peter has himself penned, it retains the two leads from the stageplay and is currently in cinemas. FROST/NIXON the film has received 5 Oscar and 6 BAFTA nominations, including nods for Peter in the Adapted Screenplay category from both organisations. Peter Morgan’s next script to go into production is HEREAFTER which will be directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg and Kathy Kennedy. Peter is currently adapting John Le Carre’s thriller TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY for the cinema screen. David Peace - Author, THE DAMNED UTD David Peace – named in 2003 as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists - was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty Three) which has been adapted into a three part Channel 4 series to be aired in Spring 2009, GB84 which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Award, and The Damned Utd, the film version of which (adapted by Peter Morgan and starring Michael Sheen) will also be released in Spring 2009. Tokyo Year Zero, the first part of his Tokyo Trilogy, was released in 2007. The second installment – Occupied City – will be released in 2009. Ben Smithard - Director of Photography Exciting talent Ben Smithard caught the attention of the film industry and the general public at large with his cinematography on the visually ravishing BBC drama CRANFORD. Prior to that Ben started his career as a D.O.P. on the popular MI5 drama SPOOKS, he has since followed that up with credits on WIRE IN THE BLOOD, ELEVENTH HOUR, Julien Temple’s music documentary GLASTONBURY and Jimmy McGovern’s THE STREET where he especially caught the eye of producer Andy Harries. Credits on THE ROYLE FAMILY, cop drama VINCENT and INSTINCT followed. THE DAMNED UNITED is the first time Ben has worked with director Tom Hooper. Eve Stewart - Production Designer Eve Stewart had previously collaborated with director Tom Hooper on the Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning ELIZABETH I, however she is best known for her collaborations with Mike Leigh including VERA DRAKE, ALL OR NOTHING, TOPSY-TURVY for which she was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000 and CAREER GIRLS. She also art directed SECRETS AND LIES and NAKED for Mike Leigh in 1996 and 1993 respectively. Eve has extensive film credits as a Production Designer including BECOMING JANE,

THE GOOD NIGHT, Guy Ritchie’s REVOLVER, DE-LOVELY, WONDROUS OBLIVION, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, GOODBYE CHARLIE BRIGHT (2001), THE HOLE (2001) and Nigel Cole’s hit comedy SAVING GRACE (2000). Her set designs can seen in cinemas later this year in British teen comedy WILD CHILD and the 1980’s set IRA drama FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING. Melanie Oliver - Editor BAFTA award-winning editor Melanie Oliver is a regular collaborator with director Tom Hooper, prior to editing THE DAMNED UNITED Melanie had worked with Tom on three separate occasions: on ELIZABETH I for which she was nominated for a Best Editing Emmy in 2006, on LONGFORD for which she won a TV BAFTA for Best Editing in 2007, she most recently collaborated with Tom on JOHN ADAMS, the HBO mini-series about one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, for which Melanie was nominated for an Emmy and an A.C.E. award. Other credits of note include the BAFTA award-winning documentary BENEATH THE VEIL, the BAFTA award-winning drama CLOCKING OFF and BOB AND ROSE and BODILY HARM for Joe Wright. For the BBC Melanie edited DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS, DIRTY WAR and FAITH. Her most recent credits include editing the film adaptation of Zadie Smith’s award-winning novel BRICK LANE and CELEBRATION for director John Crowley. Mike O’Neill - Costume Designer Award-winning costume designer Mike O’Neill is another regular collaborator with director Tom Hooper. Starting his career in theatre, Mike commenced his work in TV on Alan Bleasdale’s G.B.H. followed by the British crime drama PRIME SUSPECT in the early 1990’s. His expertise and eye for detail in period costume first evidenced in the award-winning TV drama OUR MUTUAL FRIEND secured Mike his first Costume Design BAFTA nomination, and was the springboard for a very successful career in recreating costumes from the past, his credits include BBC’s 1999 adaptation of DAVID COPPERFIELD, LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE and DANIEL DERONDA for Tom Hooper (BAFTA nominations in both). Mike won his first Costume Design BAFTA for his work on CHARLES II: THE POWER & THE PASSION for Joe Wright, Mike since went on to costume design the Elizabeth Gaskell adaptation NORTH & SOUTH, a recent film adaptation of HEIDI and ITV’s 2007 adaptation of MANSFIELD PARK. His costumes for Tom Hooper in ELIZABETH I garnered him an Emmy Award, a Costume Designers Guild Award and a BAFTA nomination. Mike’s work can next be seen on British TV screens in Rowan Joffe’s THE SHOOTING OF THOMAS HURNDALL. Jan Archibald - Make Up and Hair Designer In 2008 wig specialist Jan Archibald took the home the Academy Award to complement her BAFTA Award for her work on the Edith Piaf biopic LA VIE EN ROSE. The BAFTA Award was her second following the recognition of her work ten years previously on the Henry James adaptation THE WINGS OF THE DOVE. Jan started her career in film in 1984 as hair designer on THE

SHOOTING PARTY. Her film credits of note since then include Sally Potter’s ORLANDO, A PRIVATE FUNCTION, TOM & VIV, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, ROB ROY, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, THE CRUCIBLE, JOAN OF ARC for which Jan received a Emmy nomination, POSSESSION, ALEXANDER and THE ILLUSIONIST. Jan received a BAFTA nomination for her hair design in Robert Altman’s GOSFORD PARK. Jan has just received a BAFTA nomination for her work on THE DUCHESS. Her work on THE DAMNED UNITED utilises her niche skills in designing wigs to recreate the 1970’s footballers hairstyles, wigs of note in the film include for Leeds: the “Bremner”, the “Giles”, the “Hunter”, the “Harvey” and the “Mackenzie”. For Derby, hairstyles skillfully recreated include: the heavy sweeped fringe of the “Todd”, the tufted “Gemmill” and the Bobby Charlton-esque balding “Hennessey”.

THE DAMNED UNITED’

Directed by TOM HOOPER

Screenplay by PETER MORGAN

Based on the Novel by DAVID PEACE

Produced by ANDY HARRIES

Executive Producers CHRISTINE LANGAN

HUGO HEPPELL PETER MORGAN

Co-Producers GRAINNE MARMION

LEE MORRIS

MICHAEL SHEEN

THE DAMNED UNITED

TIMOTHY SPALL

COLM MEANEY

HENRY GOODMAN

MAURICE ROËVES

and JIM BROADBENT

STEPHEN GRAHAM BRIAN MCCARDIE PETER MCDONALD

GILES ALDERSON MARK BAZELEY

MARTIN COMPSTON JOE DEMPSIE

Director of Photography BEN SMITHARD

Production Designer EVE STEWART

Editor MELANIE OLIVER

Music by ROB LANE

Costume Designer MIKE O’NEILL

Hair & Make Up Designer JAN ARCHIBALD

Casting by DAN HUBBARD

CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Don Revie Colm Meaney Manny Cussins Henry Goodman Sam Bolton David Roper Keith Archer Jimmy Reddington Nigel Clough Oliver Stokes Simon Clough Ryan Day Brian Clough Michael Sheen Austin Mitchell Mark Bazeley Peter Taylor Timothy Spall Jimmy Gordon Maurice Roëves Billy Bremner Stephen Graham Johnny Giles Peter McDonald Norman Hunter Mark Cameron Younger Nigel Clough Frank Skillin Younger Simon Clough Dylan Van Hoof

Younger Elizabeth Clough Sydney Wade Barbara Clough Elizabeth Carling Sam Longson Jim Broadbent Groundsman Mark Jameson Les Cocker Liam Thomas Syd Owen Glenn Cunningham As Himself Tony Gubba Lillian Taylor Gillian Waugh Dave Mackay Brian McCardie John O’Hare Martin Compston John McGovern Colin Harris Colin Todd Giles Alderson Archie Gemmill Stewart Robertson Terry Hennessey Laurie Rea As Himself Sir Michael Parkinson Journalist Ralph Ineson Commentator (Wembley) Philip Childs

FA Committee Chairman Terence Harvey FA White Haired Elder Gordon Hall As Himself John Craven

Elizabeth Clough Isabella Eades-Jones Duncan Mckenzie Joe Dempsie Mike Bamber Paul Bown

Floor Manager Christopher Chilton Stunt Co-ordinator Peter Pedrero Stunts Ian Pead Roy Taylor Charlie Ramsay

Production Manager Monique Mussell First Assistant Director Martin Curry Second Assistant Director Tom Rye Script Supervisor Jemima Thomas Music Supervisor Liz Gallacher

B Camera/ Steadicam Operator Vince McGahon

Focus Puller, A Camera Adam Coles Focus Puller, B Camera Richard Lawson Clapper Loaders Mark Dempsey Kim Vinegrad Craig Porter Camera Trainee Alex Fitton Video Trainee Laurence Wright Camera Car Driver Martin Clay

Assistant Costume Designer Samantha Horn Wardrobe Supervisor Katerina Pesulova

Costume Assistants Ladislav Prochazka Kat Willis Esme Short Costume Trainee Caroline Drinkeld Screen Yorkshire Trainee Keeley Scouthern

Chief Hair and Make Up Artist Caitlin Tanner Hair and Make Up Artists Nicola Mount Rachel Speke Crowd Hair Supervisor Barbara Taylor Key Grip A Camera Ronan Murphy Key Grip B Camera Marc Tempest Gaffer Stuart Drummond Best Boy John Welsh Electricians Steven Campbell Stephen Gartside Phil Field Genny Operator Howard Roe Key Rigger David Ode Sound Recordist Martin Beresford Boom Operator Philip Porter Sound Assistant Giles Parks

Special Effects Co-ordinator Ben Ashmore

Special Effects Supervisor Paul Kelly

Inflatable Crowd Supervisors Joe Biggins Neil Gregory Production Accountant Penelope Robinson

Assistant Production Accountant Farnaz Donovan Screen Yorkshire Trainee Nick Hodson

Assistant Production Co-ordinator Eve Petcher Production Secretary Shailini Vijay Naik Production Runner Katy Roberts Location Manager Charles Thompson Unit Manager Mally Chung Location assistants Kayleigh Cruickshank Marie Elwood Third Assistant Director Gemma Nunn Floor Runner Sarah Mooney

Crowd Second Assistant Director Alex Kaye-Besley

Supervising Art Director Andrew Holden-Stokes Art Director Leon McCarthy Standby Art Director Sara Hayward Production Buyer Kate Thomas Prop Master Jason Bond Standby Prop Hand Leah Megginson Jay Pales Dressing Prop Hand Kevin Scarrott Mickey Turner Art Department Co-ordinator Jean Challender Graphic Designer Alison Staples Art Department Runner Rose Geddes Screen Yorkshire Trainees Mark Hopton Philip Green Construction Manager Martin Parker Standby Carpenter Steve Leadbitter Standby Painter Henry Gallagher Carpenters Darren Hayward Kevin Waite Peter Jones Painter Colin Worrall Scenic Artist Graeme McHugh Stage Hand Eric Johnston

Unit Publicity Premier PR Limited Still Photographer Laurie Sparham

Additional Casting Michelle Smith Casting Assistant Martin Ware

Voice Coach Penny Dyer Production Assistants John Turner Lee Ramseyer-Bache Matt Lightowler Rob Farrell Steven Metcalfe Consultant David Peace

Football Coach and Choreographer Simon Clifford Researcher Kerry Gill-Pryde Archivists James A Smith Stuart McKay

Medic Carol Carmichael Health and Safety 1st Option Safety Services Catering by HC Services

Unit Drivers John Armistead Alan Evans Karl Jones Paul Pearson Minibuses Privilege Executive Travel

For BBC Films Production Executives Michael Wood Mark Hubbard Commercial Affairs Paula Jalfon Business Affairs Simon Gillis Geraldine Atlee

Production & Delivery Co-ordinator Matthew Vizard For Screen Yorkshire

Head of Communications Andrew Craske Crew and Freelance Development Manager Nicky Ball

For Left Bank Pictures Head of Production Marigo Kehoe Head of Finance Grace Wilson Production Executive Zoe Edwards Assistants to Mr. Harries Lindsay Salt Pip Williams MALLORCA UNIT Production Services by Twinpics Location Manager Camilla Stephenson Production Manager Juanjo Seda Production Co-ordinator Daniel Sampedro

POST PRODUCTION Post Production Supervisor Alistair Hopkins Post Production Co-ordinator Claire Davis

First Assistant Editor Chris McGloin

Second Assistant Editor Ben Renton Cutting Room The Offline Editing Co Ltd Post Production Accountant Della Moore

Audio Post Production Facility Boom Post Production Supervising Sound Editor Lee Walpole Supervising Dialogue Editor André Schmidt Dialogue Editor Matthew Skelding

Foley Supervisor Forbes Noonan Assistant Sound Editor Dawn Gough Foley Artists Jack Stew Andrea King Re-recording Mixer Paul Hamblin Assistant Re-recording Mixer Alexandros Sidiropoulos ADR Recording Lipsync Post Production Voice Casting by Louis Elman Associates Score Conducted by Rob Lane Additional Music by Samuel Sim Score recorded at Abbey Road Score engineered by Jonthan Allen Score Mixed at Hear No Evil Studios Score Mixed by Steve Parr Musicians contracted by COOL Music Ltd Solo Guitar Arthur Dick Music Preparation Simon Whiteside James Gosling

Digital Intermediate by Molinare, London DI Production Manager Nina Khan

Digital Colourist Gareth Spensley Titles Design Connan McStay Supervising DI Conform Editor Andy Richards DI Technicians Steve Knight Gemma Townsend Film Supervisor Soren Kloch Film Consultant Len Brown Digital Film Supervisor Matt James Data Operators Martin Clough Katy Piggot Joe Dearman Additional VFX Producer Shanaullah Umerji

Additional VFX Supervisor Simon Kilroe VFX Artists Anthony Webb

Lewis Saunders

Visual Effects by The Mill Visual Effects Supervisor David Bowman

Visual Effects Executive Producer Will Cohen Visual Effects Producer Marie Jones

Senior Digital Matte Painter David Early Digital Matte Painter Charles Benett Compositor Foad Shah CG Artist Suraj Odedra

MUSIC

Leeds, Leeds, Leeds (Marching On Together) What's New Pussycat?

Performed by Leeds United Team and Supporters Performed by Tom Jones Written by Les Reed / Barry Mason Written by Burt Bacharach / Hal David

Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd / Dick James Music Ltd /

Published by EMI United Partnership Ltd Courtesy of Decca Music Group Ltd

Barry Mason Music Ltd / MCS Music Ltd Under licence from Universal Music Licensed from Chapter One Records Ltd Operations Ltd

Yorkshire Television Logo (Original) Flight Of The Rat

(Roger Glover Remix) Written by Derek New Performed by Deep Purple

Published by Television Music Ltd - EMI Music / Granada Media Group

Written by John Lord / Ritchie Blackmore/ Ian Gillan / Roger Glover / Ian Paice

Courtesy of ITV Productions Ltd Published by B Feldman & Co Ltd / HEC Music / EMI Music Publishing Ltd Licensed courtesy of EMI Records Ltd /

HEC Enterprises Ltd By special arrangement with

Spark Marketing Entertainment

Super Leeds United Hush

Traditional arrangement by Kevin Smith Performed by Deep Purple Written by Joe South

Published by Sony / ATV Music

Publishing

Licensed courtesy of EMI Records Ltd /

HEC Enterprises Ltd. By special

arrangement with Spark Marketing Entertainment

Glory, Glory When The Saints Go Marching In Traditional Traditional

Love And Marriage Tom Hark

Written by Sammy Cahn / Jimmy Van Heusen Written by Rupert Bopape (C) 1955 (renewed) Cahn Music Co. (ASCAP) and (c)1958 EMI (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd.

Barton Music Corp. (ASCAP) peermusic (UK) Ltd. All rights on behalf of Cahn Music Co.

Administered by WB Music Corp. All rights reserved.

Only When I Laugh Nice One Cyril Written by Ken Jones

Published by ITV Productions Ltd / EMI Music Publishing Ltd

Written by Harold Spiro / Helen Clarke Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd

I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside Guantanamera

Written by John Glover Kind Music Adapted by Julian Orbon / Pete Seeger, words adapted by Julian

Orbon, Based on a poem by Jose Marti C 1963, 1965 by Fall River Music Inc -

Harmony Music Ltd . All rights reserved

The Stars And Stripes Man Of The World Written by John Philip Sousa Performed by Fleetwood Mac

Written by Peter Green

Queen Bitch (c) Published by Crosstown Songs (UK)

Ltd Performed by David Bowie Written by David Bowie

administered by Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd

Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd / An original Immediate Chrysalis Music Publishing Ltd / recording / Courtesy of

Tintoretto Music / RZO Music Ltd Sanctuary Records Group Ltd Courtesy of RZO Music Under licence from Licensemusic.com

ApS and Universal Music Operations Ltd

Developed by

Supported by the Screen Yorkshire Fund

© 2009 The Damned United Ltd All rights reserved.

The Damned United Ltd is the author of this film

(motion picture) for the purpose of copyright and other laws.

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Filmed entirely on location in Leeds, Chesterfield, Wakefield, Scarborough,

Saddleworth and Mallorca, Spain.

Archive Footage Supplied Courtesy Of

BBC Sport - Elizabeth Turtle BBC Sport Library - Steve Whitehead BBC Motion Gallery - Misbah Ullah

ITN Source - Beatrice Okoro Media Archive for Central England at the University of Leicester

ITV Production

Muhammad Ali ‘ITV World of Sport’ Material supplied by The ITV Sport Archive

Muhammad Ali Enterprises LLC

‘The Damned United’ by David Peace courtesy of Faber & Faber Ltd

Supporting Footballers James Bateson, Bill Bradshaw, Andrew Gordon, Andy Graham, Stuart Gray,

Alex Harker, David Leasley, Leslie Maylett, Chris Moore, Tom Ramsbottom, Alex Rogerton, John Savage, Matthew Storton, Danny Tomlinson, Craig Williams.

Chris Ashurst, Chris Boulstridge, Sean Hare, Chris Hutchinson, Tom

Kolinski, Francis Linksill, Stephen Nicholas, David Toghinejad, Keiron Waite,

Robert Williams.

Damian Broadbent, Wayne Ewart, Tom Holloway, Brett McFarlne, Carl Micken, Paul O’Brien, Matthew Plummer, Alex Rogerson, Tobias Samuels, Raymond

Taylor, Richard Tillotson.

With Thanks JENNY BORGARS

ISABEL BEGG LEEDS UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB

ALAN WALTERS AND CHESTERFIELD FOOTBALL CLUB DERBY COUNTY FOOTBALL CLUB

SCOREDRAW ANN MASKREY

DYNAMIC INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT SERVICES LTD THE SANTA LUCIA HOTEL

MALLORCA AND GLOBALES HOTEL AND RESORTS

Post Production Script SAPEX Scripts Laboratory Services Soho Film Lab Legal Services Olswang Auditors Shipleys LLP Insurance Brokers Media Insurance Brokers Ltd Period Cameras Golden Age Television

Lighting Equipment Supplied by Provision, Leeds.

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