{"id":299755,"date":"2026-02-19T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/299755\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:07:08","slug":"the-99ers-movie-from-netflix-casts-emilia-jones-alessandro-nivola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/299755\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The 99’ers’ Movie From Netflix Casts Emilia Jones & Alessandro Nivola"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Emilia Jones<\/a> (Task) and Alessandro Nivola<\/a> (Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette) have closed deals to join Zoey Deutch and Emily Bader in The 99\u2019ers, Netflix<\/a>\u2018s U.S. Women\u2019s Soccer drama from director Nicole Kassell.<\/p>\n

\n\tJones will play Julie Foudy, a prominent member of the U.S. Women\u2019s National Soccer Team for\u00a017 years, who played midfielder and ultimately elevated to co-captain, and then captain of the team. Nivola plays Tony DiCicco, who was the team\u2019s head coach from 1994-1999, leading them to become world champions in 1999, with 103 wins overall.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs we previously reported, Deutch will play Marla Messing, the trailblazing soccer executive who oversaw the massively successful 1999 World Cup tournament, with Bader playing star forward and striker Mia Hamm.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on the 2000 HarperPerennial book The Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women\u2019s Soccer Team and How It Changed the World by Jer\u00e9 Longman, The 99\u2019ers picks up with the U.S. Women\u2019s National Soccer Team in 1999, as they defy the odds to emerge victorious in a dramatic penalty kick shootout against China in the World Cup final, under the scorching summer sun and in a stadium filled with 93,000 fans. This monumental win captivated millions worldwide and forever altered the course of women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is written by Katie Lovejoy, Dana Stevens, and Peter Hedges. Jill Mazursky and Jamee Decio were the first writers on the project. Liza Chasin is producing for 3Dot Productions, under the company\u2019s deal with the streamer, alongside Hayley Stool and Ross Greenburg, with Marla Messing, Jill Mazursky, and Krista Smith exec producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tComing off a lauded turn alongside Tom Pelphrey and Mark Ruffalo in the HBO crime drama Task from Mare of Easttown\u2018s Brad Ingelsby, Jones will next be seen starring opposite Dominic Sessa in A24\u2019s Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony. She is repped by\u00a0Brillstein Entertainment Partners, CAA, the UK\u2019s Artist Rights Group, and attorney Chris Abramson.<\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently, Nivola can be seen playing iconic fashion designer Calvin Klein in FX\u2019s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette. Also recently seen in Brady Corbet\u2019s The Brutalist and Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s The Room Next Door, he is repped by UTA, Range Media Partners, Tavistock Wood in the UK, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Emilia Jones (Task) and Alessandro Nivola (Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette) have closed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[151364,27132,146,85,46,397,400,151365],"class_list":["post-299755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alessandro-nivola","tag-emilia-jones","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-the-99ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}