Popular sports management title Football Manager is to make its debut on the big-screen on October 7th with the release of An Alternative Reality: The Football Manager Documentary, produced by FilmNova.

Featuring contributions from some of Football Manager’s creators and famous fans from the worlds of football and entertainment, An Alternative Reality: The Football Manager Documentary will examine the game’s enduring appeal and how it has seeped into and influenced the culture of the world’s favourite game.

“The documentary isn’t our story – it’s the story of the people who escape to the alternative reality of being a football manager, and the effect this has had on their lives. It’s also the story of how a computer game made by football fans has become a part of the world it set out to replicate,” says Miles Jacobson, Studio Director of Sports Interactive. “But it’s not just for people who play – it’s also for people who’ve ever wondered why others spend so much time escaping into this world.”

Football Manager 2015 has yet to receive a release date but will be available in November. An Alternative Reality: The Football Manager Documentary will be screened on Tuesday, October 7th 2014 (for one night only) at the following Vue cinemas:

Aberdeen
Birkenhead
Birmingham Star City
Bolton
Bristol Cribbs
Bury the Rock
Cardiff
Cheshire Oaks
Doncaster
Edinburgh Omni
Fulham
Gateshead
Glasgow Fort
Islington
Leeds Light
Manchester Lowry
Oxford
Piccadilly
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Reading
Sheffield
Swansea
Watford
Westfield White City
Westfield Stratford