Welsh set to direct Billy Connolly film
TRAINSPOTTING author Irvine Welsh is set to direct a new film starring Billy Connolly.
But instead of using one of his own novels, he will reportedly be adapting a book by fellow Scottish writer Alan Warner.
The Man Who Walks will feature Connolly as a madman with a glass eye and a fondness for whisky.
Welsh, who was in Edinburgh last week for the Film Festival, recently made a short film called Nuts about a man with testicular cancer. The dark comedy, which was made for just 7000, was shown last Thursday.
He is best-known for his Capital-based book Trainspotting.
Warner told audiences at the Edinburgh Book Festival he was thrilled that Welsh and Connolly had just agreed to be involved.
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