Jamie Vardy Photo: VCG

If Leicester City's FA Cup final win over Chelsea last weekend seemed like something out of a Hollywood film that is because it soon will be.

One of the stories that has since come out in the days following the 1-0 win at Wembley - the Foxes' first FA Cup triumph at the fifth time of asking - was that the planned movie about Jamie Vardy's life story is back on track.

It was before the final, as Adrian Butchart, producer of the Vardy movie told The Athletic.

"The movie is very much alive. We've taken advantage of lockdown to work on the script, although it does seem like Jamie is writing new chapters all the time! We are about to start casting and shooting as soon as we can, but given we would like to involve the fans we are hoping for full stadiums first."

His meteoric rise through the English football pyramid, from non-league with his local side Stocksbridge Steels all the way up to winning the English Premier League with Leicester City in 2016, has seemed like something of a dream. Vardy being pictured sleeping wearing his FA Cup winners' medal, just as he did with his league winners' medal, seems fitting.

Vardy made history again on Saturday, becoming the first player to have played in every single round of the FA Cup - barring the extra preliminary round at the very outset of the competition - as first pointed out by the BBC Radio Leicester journalist Ian Stringer after the semifinal.

It is another remarkable journey in Vardy's storied career and only adds to the mystique of the world's oldest cup competition.

His appearance in the Preliminary Round, which he played in while at Stocksbridge Steels back in 2007, must have seemed a world away from Wembley. That September 14 years ago saw Vardy's side beat Curzon Ashton 3-2 and Vardy netted his first FA Cup goal in the win. The team played in the First Qualifying Round against Frickley Athletic a week or so later, winning 2-1.

Three years later Vardy played for Halifax Town in First Round Qualifying, the side beating Whitby Town 2-0.

He had already played in Second Round Qualifying in 2008, when Stocksbridge Steels had met Curzon Ashton once more but the visitors got revenge for a year earlier winning 2-1. However, a more notable example was a year later when Stockbirdge lost 7-2 to Stalybridge Celtic.

Vardy was at Halifax when he played in the Third Round Qualifying in October 2010, scoring in a 4-0 win over fellow Yorkshire-based non-league side Harrogate Town. Fourth Round Qualifying came in that same cup run, with Halifax Town losing 1-0 to Mansfield Town and seeing their run come to an end later that October.

So to the FA Cup Proper and the First Round Proper in 2011. Vardy was on the fringes of becoming a league footballer at this point having signed for Conference side Fleetwood Town.

He scored for Fleetwood in a 2-0 win over Wycombe Wanderers in November's First Round Proper and then again against Yeovil Town in December - after a 2-2 draw in Fleetwood the Lancashire side won the replay 2-0 away at Yeovil.

Vardy also got the consolation in Fleetwood's Third Round Proper meeting with local rivals Blackpool in January 2012, a game that ended 5-1 to the League Two side.

A year later Vardy, by now a Leicester City player, tasted the Fourth Round for the first time. The Foxes were drawn against Huddersfield Town that January and played out a 1-1 draw with the Terriers beating the Foxes 2-1 in a February replay.

Leicester reached the Fifth Round in 2017 with Vardy on the bench for the champions of England in a 1-0 loss to Millwall, with the Sixth Round, as the quarterfinals of the competition are known, coming a year later - Vardy scored as Chelsea beat Leicester City 2-1.

There were other games in those earlier rounds elsewhere in Vardy's career, of course, but this season he would go to Wembley.

This season Vardy, who has played 26 times for England including representing the Three Lions at the 2018 World Cup, appeared in an FA Cup semifinal. He may not have scored but he did assist Kelechi Iheanacho for the goal that saw off Southampton in a 1-0 win.

Then came Saturday's final and Vardy was delighted to win the trophy.

"It's unbelievable, what a feeling," he told LCFC TV after the game. "To do it on a night, I know it isn't everyone, but 6,000 to 6,500 Leicester fans here with us, the noise they were making cheering us on, it just makes that feeling even more special.

"It's massively up there. Winning anything, any trophy, you have to put it at the top. It's not an easy thing to do, so I think it's testament to the lads for the performance they put in - attacking together, defending resolutely together.

"You've seen at the end, everyone has left everything on that pitch and I think we deserved the win overall.

"It's a brilliant feeling. We've managed to do it, but when the gaffer came in over two years ago, he said he wanted to keep progressing, how he wanted to play, and he wanted us to be challenging for trophies. Now we've got one, we're going to be wanting some more. It's hard work, dedication and we want to progress as much as we can.

"You can see with how he's got us playing, he wants us to play a certain way and that's exactly what we're doing. Everyone's bought into it.

"To keep that progression going is testament to himself and what he's working with us on the training field, and testament to the lads for wanting to put the work in."

There are not many who have put in more work than Vardy and even at 34, with the possibility of another shot at the UEFA Champions League next season, there are even fewer who have such a rich tale to tell.