Gangsters Reunited

Ready the sawn off and brush up on your evil cockney growl. In what we hope will eclipse even the mere memory of the particularly appalling Bon Jovi song of the same name, Brit director Mike Hodges’ new film, I’ll Sleep when I’m Dead, sees him firmly heading back into dark Get Carter gangster territory. With the shoot kicking off on the film in London yesterday and also scheduled to jaunt off into Wales, the gangster flick will re-unite Hodges with key personnel from his 1971 classic Get Carter and also see him work again with Clive Owen, the star of his 1999 sleeper hit, Croupier. And with Charlotte Rampling, Bend It Like Beckham’s Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and gangster no.1 himself, Malcolm McDowell, beefing out the cast, Hodges’ tale of a legendary gangster drawn back into the underworld through a disturbing family event promises to be a suitably seedy descendent of Carter and co.