With sport biopics slowly dominating the media landscape, producers around the world will surely have been as heartbroken as Arsenal fans at the end of last season, as Manchester City robbed Hollywood of one of sport's great comeback stories.
Of course, sealing a Treble in such style as Pep Guardiola's side managed, blasted to victory by Erling Haaland on three fronts, hardly makes for a poor narrative.
But at the heart of Mikel Arteta's young, impressive and dynamic side was an unlikely hero who, four years ago, looked set for the exit having been stripped of the captaincy.