A book based on the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster - when 39 football fans died - is set to be turned into a film.
Hundreds of people were injured when a stadium wall collapsed as rival Liverpool and Juventus fans clashed before the European Cup final.
The aftermath of that evening in Brussels, Belgium, saw English clubs banned from European competition for five years. Liverpool were handed an extra year's suspension.
The dead included 32 Italians, four Belgians, two French fans and a man from Northern Ireland. More than 600 other fans were also injured.
Fourteen Liverpool fans were each sentenced to three years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
The film, which does not yet have a working title, will be based on French author Laurent Mauvignier's 2006 novel 'In The Crowd'.
It follows fans from England, Belgium, France and Italy on the eve and day of the match on May 29,1985.
Jean Baptiste Babin, who as founding partner of Backup Films is funding the project, said the story was 'very strong in terms of European identity'.
Speaking from Cannes Film Festival, where plans for the film were announced, he told the Liverpool Daily Post: 'It is a very ambitious story.
'It is an historical event which is still vivid in most European countries. It will be handled sensitively.
'We wanted to announce the film at Cannes, but we are still working on the development of the film.'
French film-maker Jean Stephane Sauvaire, whose 2008 film Johnny Mad Dog was about child soldiers in Africa, will be the director.
The book tells the story of four groups of different nationalities who cross paths.
Different points of view are expressed through a series of internal monologues.
And as the excitement of the build-up to the match ends in tragedy, readers see how their lives and relationships are changed forever.
Mr Babin added: 'We want people to focus on the characters and the story. The characters are as important as the background and the event.'
Despite the disaster the referee felt abandoning the game would have incited further trouble and so Juventus went on to win 1–0 with a penalty scored by Michel Platini.
On May 29 last year, Liverpool and Juventus fans marked the 25th anniversary of the Heysel tragedy with a friendly match at the north-west club's Kirkby academy.
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There's a very even balance they'll have to maintain between being unbiased and being tasteless or offensive, while aiming at a UK market. I think this is a film that we as a society could do without.
