Irvine Welsh: First time director
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Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is set to direct his first movie.
The Scottish novelist will step behind the camera for a film about British football
hooligans.
Soul Crew will be a "high energy, violent drama" based on a book about Cardiff City FC's notorious hooligan element.
Welsh, who has also written the script for the film, is due to start shooting later this year.
Title role
His best-selling book Trainspotting was turned into a box office hit starring
Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller.
But this will be the first time that Welsh, author of Filth, Porno and The
Acid House, has gone behind a camera himself.
Meanwhile Trainspotting actor Robert Carlyle is to take title role in period
epic Jamie McGillivray.
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