{"id":2285301,"date":"2026-02-17T07:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2285301"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:30:41","slug":"ronaldo-biopic-is-timothee-chalamet-playing-cristiano-ronaldo-with-andrew-garfield-as-messi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ronaldo-biopic-is-timothee-chalamet-playing-cristiano-ronaldo-with-andrew-garfield-as-messi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Biopic: Is Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Playing Cristiano Ronaldo With Andrew Garfield as Messi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Recently, reports had it that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm1860184\/\">Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> is getting his own biopic very soon, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm3154303\/\">Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a> playing the titular character and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm1940449\/\">Andrew Garfield<\/a> as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm2177779\/\">Lionel Messi<\/a>. And fans almost fell for it \u2013 except that it isn\u2019t really true.<\/p>\n<p>As per the snippet of a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0843075\/\">Letterboxd<\/a> page shared by @AbhayCuts on X, this biopic was reportedly titled <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt5065822\/\">Ronaldo<\/a> and was set for a 2028 release, directed by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000520\/\">Michael Mann<\/a>. It also listed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm1869101\/\">Ana de Armas<\/a> as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm9783607\/\">Georgina Rodriguez<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm15811955\/\">CR7<\/a>\u2019s decade-long partner, alongside <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001993\/\">Vincent Cassel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, while there is high speculation that the footballer might make his theatrical acting debut by 2028, fans need to know that this news of his upcoming biopic is entirely false.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, reports had it that Cristiano Ronaldo is getting his own biopic very soon, with Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet playing the titular character and Andrew Garfield as Lionel Messi. And fans almost fell for it \u2013 except that it isn\u2019t really true. As per the snippet of a Letterboxd page shared by @AbhayCuts on X, this biopic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2285301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ronaldo-Biopic-Is-Timothee-Chalamet-Playing-Cristiano-Ronaldo-With-Andrew.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285303,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285301\/revisions\/2285303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}