Is Wrexham movie on the cards?

HOLLYWOOD stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s potential investment in Wrexham may be motivated by the chance to make a documentary film charting their progress. McElhenney, an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, maintained the intrigue last night when, having been asked on Twitter ‘Why Wrexham?’ replied: ‘Why not Wrexham?’ Publicly the pair will await a Special General Meeting of the fan-owned National League club’s members to explain themselves, though ownership would certainly give a new twist to the fly-on-the-wall

genre of sports film. Neither McElhenney nor Reynolds, the Canadian actor, writer, producer and entrepreneur whose credits include Marvel’s

Deadpool, appear to have any links to north Wales. The club may have held out interest as a former coal and steel town, as his grandfather is thought to have been a miner. Reynolds has had mixed investment success, though he sold his drinks brand Aviation Gin to giant distiller Diageo in a $610m (£477m) deal last month. There are suggestions that

McElhenney put the idea of investment in British football to Reynolds. Wrexham director Spencer Harris said that the pair had ‘a big emotional connection, from what I’ve seen thus far’, and insisted they had done ‘a lot of detailed research into the club’. Captain Shaun Pearson said: ‘I’m similar to probably everyone else, you think, “Nah, no way”. But it’s potentially a big opportunity for the club.’ A huge 97.5 per cent of the supporter-owned club’s 1,254 members voted in favour of pursuing talks with the pair.