Andy Mulligan's novel Trash was a hit on release in 2010, shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Award for children's books. Now Stephen Daldry has turned it into a film, and here's the first poster to prove it.
As you can probably tell from this, it's the story of three young boys who eke out a living from the trash at a dump site. There, Raphael (Rickson Teves), Gardo (Eduardo Luis) and Rato (Gabriel Weinstein) find a leather bag that contains a wallet with money and some pictures in it, and a key. When the police turn up offering a large reward for the wallet's return, the boys get suspicious, and start to piece together the life of its former owner, José Angelo (Wagner Moura). Soon the dangerous Frederico (Selton Mello) is after them and they have to find someone they can trust to get the word out.
The film also stars Martin Sheen, as disillusioned priest Father Juilliard, and Rooney Mara as his assistant Sister Olivia, who work in the favela where the boys live.
Richard Curtis adapted the book for the screen, as Daldry makes his first film since Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close in 2011, after huge theatre successes inbetween with The Audience and Skylight there. Meanwhile the book is pacy and quietly moving, so we have hopes for this - and the poster's clear Slumdog Millionaire influence also suggests the sort of thing we're looking at. Trash hits UK cinemas on January 30.