{"id":416544,"date":"2025-09-11T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416544\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:19:12","slug":"kenny-dalglish-documentary-to-hit-big-screen-heres-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416544\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Dalglish documentary to hit big screen &#8211; Here&#8217;s when"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The documentary, entitled Kenny Dalglish, will feature\u00a0hundreds of hours of archival footage, including never-before-seen personal clips from Dalglish&#8217;s playing career\u00a0at Liverpool, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/celtic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a> and Scotland, as well as footage of his\u00a0home life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will be narrated by Sir Kenny himself\u00a0and will see him joined by wife Marina and footballing friends\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/graeme-souness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graeme Souness<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Alan Hansen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: Image of Kenny Dalglish)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: Image of Kenny Dalglish) <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: Image of Kenny Dalglish) The\u00a0film\u00a0is directed by Asif Kapadia, the\u00a0Oscar\u00a0and Bafta-winning director of Senna,\u00a0Amy Winehouse\u00a0and\u00a0Diego Maradona.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25459762.show-celebrating-legendary-disco-group-coming-glasgow\/?rel=cl_mra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Show celebrating legendary disco group coming to Glasgow<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking on the film, Kapadia said: &#8220;Kenny Dalglish was my hero as a kid and I had his picture on my wall in North London where I grew up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI wanted to make this film for people like me who remember Kenny as a player, the Celtic, Liverpool, and Scottish fans, but also for my kids\u2019 generation who only know Kenny from playing FIFA.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They know the name but they have never seen how good he was as a player or, more importantly, what he did off the pitch for the people of\u00a0Liverpool. Kenny was the leader who always stepped up and led us when we needed him.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: Image of Kenny Dalglish) <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: Image of Kenny Dalglish) Kenny Dalglish will play in cinemas across the\u00a0UK\u00a0for one night only on October 29.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, the documentary will launch on Prime\u00a0Video\u00a0on November 4.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For more information, visit\u00a0www.aboutamazon.co.uk\/news\/entertainment\/kenny-dalglish-documentary-prime-video\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25459559.former-frontman-legendary-rockers-perform-glasgow\/?rel=cl_mra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Former frontman of legendary rockers to perform in Glasgow<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During his career, Kenny Dalglish\u00a0made 338 appearances for\u00a0Celtic\u00a0and 515 for\u00a0Liverpool.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The forward earned a record 102 caps for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/scotland-national-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotland national team<\/a>, scoring 30 goals. He went on to win the\u00a0Ballon d&#8217;Or\u00a0Silver Award in 1983.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He has been inducted into both the\u00a0Scottish\u00a0and\u00a0English Football Halls of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The documentary, entitled Kenny Dalglish, will feature\u00a0hundreds of hours of archival footage, including never-before-seen personal clips from Dalglish&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}