http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984541.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562

Thoughts?

It may just be me, but I think it would work better as a stage play than as a film.

A film would have all sorts of rating problems if the script follows the book and uses the word "fuck" every fifth word.

There's an interview with the actor Warren Clarke in this weeks 'Time Out'

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What are you reading at the moment?

Several very bad scripts. I was reading 'The Damned United' by David Pearce but got fed up and threw it away. It just became so fucking boring. When I was looking back on it, I thought, 'how much of this is new?' He seemed to have got so many of his ideas from other books. But maybe I just didn't like it because I'm a Manchester City fan.

I guess he's talking about reading the book but it did make me wonder whether he'd been approached for some part in the TV version.

I expect that he'll find "The Tragedy of Svennis, Prince of Eastlands" a bit more interesting.

I have to admit I've picked up The Damned United to read a few times, got quickly bored, and also quite irritated with the writing style, and given up on it.

On a slight tangent, I started watching 'BEST' that George Best movie this morning. Oh my God. What a pile of shit. What a seeping boil on the face of football and film. I can't quite belive how badly wrong they got it all. The casting was mind-bendingly awful, picking the least charismatic, plainest looking man in the world to play Georgie Best. And that cunt out of Soldier Soldier to play Bobby Charlton.

I turned it off.

tratorello wrote:

QUOTE:
There's an interview with the actor Warren Clarke in this weeks 'Time Out'

QUOTE:
What are you reading at the moment?

Several very bad scripts. I was reading 'The Damned United' by David Pearce but got fed up and threw it away. It just became so fucking boring. When I was looking back on it, I thought, 'how much of this is new?' He seemed to have got so many of his ideas from other books. But maybe I just didn't like it because I'm a Manchester City fan.

Hang on, Warren Clarke was in that 'I.D.' abomination, he's developed more rarified tastes all of a sudden.

QUOTE:
Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney

Braodbent - Revie, Spall - Taylor?

Mike Yarwood - Clough.

will be interesting to see how they adapt it considering how much of the book is interior monologue and how much it jumps about between the derby and leeds periods.

ideally they'd do it in the style of peep show, and have it all from a raging clough's eye view as he repeatedly walks down the same fucking corridor and round the same fucking corner at elland road every day. would be cheap too

Weird. When I saw they were making a film of this I thought "you know who they need to get to play Clough - that bloke who played Kenneth Williams in Fantabulosa, he'd be perfect". And wouldn't you know it...

I can't wait to see this film. I loved the book and I reckon Michael Sheen's performance promises to be extraordinary.

South Bank Show on ITV now profiling David Peace and The Damned United.

Interesting enough, apart from Melvyn's perverse misreading of 'GB84' and the fact that the 2nd half petered out into 'what famous people think of football and writing'

Fantastic scheduling to put it against the final league MotD which had moved to Sunday for the climax to the EPL season. Good work ITV!

Anyone got a torrent?