The Covid-19 pandemic meant that the Eurovision Song Contest couldn't take place as planned in 2020. But for anyone still hungry for that fix of ex🗹uberant performance and OTT pop music that only Eurovision provides, there ♉is something to look forward to this summer.
Musical comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga hits Netflix in June, and it follows singing duo Lars (Will Ferrell) and Sigrit (Rachel McAdams), who are given the oppo🅺rtunity to represent Iceland at th🃏e international competition. Imagine Blades of Glory with pop anthems...
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“My wife has family in Sweden," Ferrell continues. "Our first trip there would have been the spring of ’99, and we were out in the countryside at their little summer cabin, and her cousin said [Swedish accent], ‘So, shall we sit down and watch Eurovision?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I guess💦. What’s that?’
"I watched mesmerised for the entire three hours. Ironically, that year a Swede won: Charlotte Nilsson. I was just blown away by the spectacle, the camp. Ever♔ything you guys [in the UK] are used to, we didn’t have anything like that, in America. I literally went, ‘That would make a great movie.’”
For much more from Ferrell, McAdams and Dobkin on Eurovision Song Contest: The St💜ory of Fire Saga, check out the new♛ (Tenet) issue of Total Film magazine, which his shelves on May 29. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga launches on Netflix on 26 June.
You can , to get it delivered directly to you door. If you never wantౠ to miss an issue of Total Film, you can subscribe starting with the Tenet issue (TF 299) via . The issue will also be available in shops and from digital newssta✅nds for your tablet from Friday, May 29.
I'm the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I've worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+, and you can often hear m🧔e nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-﷽Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.
