Irvine Welsh Plans Football Film?

To direct and co-write comedy script

Irvine Welsh Plans Football Film?

by Helen O'Hara |
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Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has been lined up to direct and co-write a new football* comedy for the amusingly named Angry Badger Pictures. Called The Magnificent Eleven, we wonder if this can do what nearly every other football film ever has failed to do, and be really good.

As the title perhaps suggests, the film's a sporty modern version of The Magnificent Seven, with the cowboys replaced by a struggling amateur football team, the people they're trying to protect become the owners of the local tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a gang of thugs led by a man named Blond Bob.

The script was written by father-and-son team Pete and John Adams (no, not the US revolutionary leader), with Welsh set to work with them on the next draft before taking the directorial reins. This isn't his first outing as director - he previously made darts movie Good Arrows - but let's hope it manages to capture the beautiful game onscreen.

*That's "soccer" for our American readers, not that silly game you play with all the padding.

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