FX’s official trailer for Welcome to Wrexham dives into why Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney decided to buy the Wrexham Red Dragons, a team they knew pretty much nothing about. The trailer features members of the Wrexham community describing the town’s love of football as more important than life or death. So, how did the football fanatics take to two Hollywood stars buying their team? The docuseries explores that relationship and the impact their involvement has had on both the team and the town.
Welcome to Wrexham will premiere on FX on August 24, 2022 at 10pm ET/PT with the release of the first two episodes. FX has already renewed the series for a second season.
The Details, Courtesy of FX: “Rob McElhenney (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) navigate running the third oldest professional football club in the world. Welcome to Wrexham is a docuseries tracking the dreams and worries of Wrexham, a working-class town in North Wales, UK, as two Hollywood stars take ownership of the town’s historic yet struggling football club.
In 2020, Rob and Ryan teamed up to purchase the 5th tier Red Dragons in the hopes of turning the club into an underdog story the whole world could root for. The worry? Rob and Ryan have no experience in football or working with each other. From Hollywood to Wales, from the pitch to the locker room, the front office to the pub, Welcome to Wrexham will track Rob and Ryan’s crash course in football club ownership and the inextricably connected fates of a team and a town counting on two actors to bring some serious hope and change to a community that could use it.”
