We reported last year that Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh was planning to follow up his darts film Good Arrows with a football-themed tale called The Magnificent Eleven, which combines the beautiful game with The Magnificent Seven.Now, with Stealth Media Group busy rounding up sales deals and financing at the Berlin Film Festival, it looks like it’ll finally be ready to crank into production.And Welsh has recruited a few cast members, including Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and – in a nice touch that truly links the comedy with its cinematic inspiration – Robert Vaughn, the final surviving member of the Magnificent Seven role call.Pete and John Adams wrote the script (which Welsh has joined them to polish) and the plot finds a local amateur football team trying to protect the owners of their favourite tandoori restaurant from bandits – or, in this case, a gang of thugs led by a...
- 2/14/2010
- EmpireOnline
As much as I loved The Magnificent Seven I always felt the one thing it was missing was Football.
I’m certain a quick kick around would have lifted spirits between raids on the village and while I’m clearly being facetious the news from Berlin today that Trainspotting Novelist and director of the darts film Good Arrows Irvine Welsh is lined up to co-write and direct a football film, based loosely on the exploits of the gunslingers, called The Magnificent Eleven is certainly interesting.
Football films haven’t fared too well at the box office, but if there’s anyone who can pinpoint the comedy and tragedy of the Sunday football leagues it’s Welsh.
ScreenDaily have the news and offer this synopsis,
[The Magnificent Eleven is] a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven in which the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori...
I’m certain a quick kick around would have lifted spirits between raids on the village and while I’m clearly being facetious the news from Berlin today that Trainspotting Novelist and director of the darts film Good Arrows Irvine Welsh is lined up to co-write and direct a football film, based loosely on the exploits of the gunslingers, called The Magnificent Eleven is certainly interesting.
Football films haven’t fared too well at the box office, but if there’s anyone who can pinpoint the comedy and tragedy of the Sunday football leagues it’s Welsh.
ScreenDaily have the news and offer this synopsis,
[The Magnificent Eleven is] a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven in which the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori...
- 2/14/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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...
- 5/22/2009
- EmpireOnline
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh will make his feature directorial debut with ITV4 comedy Good Arrows. The 90-minute spoof-documentary, ITV4's first comedy commission, focuses on a darts player who suffers a heart attack, prompting him to lose his skills at the oche. Elaborating on the story, Welsh said: "Good Arrows is set in South Wales, in the world of professional darts. It is a satire on the most vacuous (more)...
- 8/20/2008
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
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