McAvoy, Cumming and Bell to unite
Actors James McAvoy, Alan Cumming and Jamie Bell are set to join forces on the cast of the film Filth, an adaptation of the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name.
This is the fourth Irvine Welsh novel to get a film adaptation, following Trainspotting, The Acid House and the forth coming feature Ecstasy.
Filth is about the immoral police officer Bruce Robertson, who is investigating a racial murder whilst trying to gain promotion and lots of overtime, he makes sexually harassing phone calls to his friend’s wife in another person’s voice, ploughs through a drug fuelled bender in Amsterdam and to top it all off is afflicted by a tapeworm who also acts as his conscience. Yes it does sound complicated but enthralling all the same.
McAvoy will be playing Robertson, with Bell portraying his younger partner Lennox (who subsequently got his own follow up story in the 2008 novel Crime). Finally Cumming will be playing the role of Robertson’s boss, Bob Toal.
Welsh, who wrote the novel will be acting as the film’s producer and John S Baird will be directing.
The film will begin filming in January of next year.