{"id":2358,"date":"2011-08-06T21:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2011-08-06T21:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T17:30:33","slug":"james-mcavoy-jamie-bell-filming-starts-january-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/james-mcavoy-jamie-bell-filming-starts-january-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"James McAvoy, Jamie Bell & Alan Cumming Set For Irvine Welsh\u2019s \u2018Filth\u2019; Filming Starts January 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Indie Wire<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, in an interview with\u00a0The Daily Record<\/a>,\u00a0James McAvoy<\/strong>\u00a0hinted at a tantalizing potential project on the horizon saying, \u201cI\u2019m looking at a part soon, like the second half of this year, that is quite extreme I mean, quite full on mental.\u201d While the actor is currently shooting the crime drama \u201cWelcome to the Punch<\/strong>,\u201d the premise of that film\u2014 about a London detective whose old nemesis, an armed robber, reappears after five years away\u2014doesn\u2019t sound \u201cquite extreme\u201d or \u201cfull on mental.\u201d However, one project that has been floating with his name attached is an adaptation of\u00a0Irvine Welsh<\/strong>\u2018s \u201cFilth<\/strong>\u201d and it now seems the long-gestating project is coming together.<\/p>\n

The book is right in the usual Welsh wheelhouse, both lurid and darkly hilarious, as it follows the adventures of Bruce Robertson, a sex-obsessed, cocaine-addicted, bigoted Scottish police officer who is supposed to be investigating a murder but gets sidetracked by his own peculiarities, worries and hangups ranging from the pranks he pulls on his co-workers to his various sexual conquests. Looking in on Robertson is partner-of-sorts, Ray Lennox, and his boss, Bob Toal, in a story that is as outrageous, inventive and edgy as you might expect from Welsh and it has lined up a solid cast.<\/p>\n

Today we spoke with the author about a film version of\u00a0another<\/em>\u00a0one of his books, \u201cEcstasy<\/strong>\u201d (more on that in a moment), and during our conversation he confirmed that not only is McAvoy on board for \u201cFilth,\u201d but that he\u2019ll be joined by\u00a0Jamie Bell<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Alan Cumming<\/strong>, with filming to kick off in January 2012. \u201cThat\u2019s going to be the main cast,\u201d he told us adding, \u201cJames is going to be main character, Jamie is going to be Lennox his kind of sidekick and Alan is going to be Toal, his boss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Welsh is on board as a producer, with Brit helmer and friend\u00a0Jon S. Baird<\/strong>\u00a0behind the camera, who had impressed the author with his debut feature film. \u201cJon did a biopic of\u00a0Cass Pennant<\/a><\/strong>, a film called \u2018Cass<\/strong>,\u2019 which was well received in the U.K\u2026It was compared favourably by some of the critics to \u2018This Is England<\/strong>.\u2019 It was the same kind of style and really kind of a beautiful little film,\u201d Welsh explained about how Baird came on board.<\/p>\n

\u201cJon and I hit it off and became good friends. He\u2019s worked really, really hard on it. I\u2019ve been trying to that made with different producers and [with] different directors attached and different cast attached for years and years. He did a revised screenplay which was absolutely brilliant,\u201d Welsh elaborated on the film\u2019s development. \u201cI think Jon\u2019s definitely done something really sort of magic. He\u2019s captured and he\u2019s kept the essence of the main protagonist but he\u2019s done a lot of interesting things with it as well. He\u2019s kind of rendered very, very cinematic and I think it\u2019s a great script and it\u2019s going to make a great film with that cast attached.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to argue with that. Our big question is how the monologue by the protagonist\u2019s tapeworm (yes, no joke) will be handled and if the film will stick with the wickedly black-as-night ending to the novel. Either way, McAvoy was not kidding around when he alluded to the project, and it\u2019s certainly not like anything he\u2019s done before. More to come next week including our exclusive trailer premiere for \u201cEcstasy,\u201d with more from Welsh and the film\u2019s director,Rob Heydon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Indie Wire Earlier this year, in an interview with\u00a0The Daily Record,\u00a0James McAvoy\u00a0hinted at a tantalizing potential project on the horizon saying, \u201cI\u2019m looking at a part soon, like the second half of this year, that is quite extreme I mean, quite full on mental.\u201d While the actor is currently shooting the crime drama \u201cWelcome […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-C2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20737,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/return-to-silent-hill-official-teaser-trailer\/","url_meta":{"origin":2358,"position":0},"title":"RETURN TO SILENT HILL Official Teaser Trailer","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"September 8, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeremy Irvine (\u201cTreadstone\u201d) and Hannah Emily Anderson (\u201cJigsaw\u201d) lead the cast of the new film, which is directly based on the highly acclaimed \u201cSilent Hill 2\u201d game.","rel":"","context":"In "Trailers"","block_context":{"text":"Trailers","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/trailers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/images-2.jpeg?fit=452%2C678&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2476,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/x-men-first-class-deleted-scene-magneto-does-drag-exclusive-video-inside-movies-ew-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":2358,"position":1},"title":"‘X-Men: First Class’ deleted scene: Magneto does drag! — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO | Inside Movies | EW.com","author":"AJ","date":"August 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 \u00a0 Sometimes being an arch-nemesis is a real drag. 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