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September 15, 2000
The Mirror
"Gunfight at the OK Carlyle; Star Bobby Writes Cowboy
Adventure"
By James Mellor
SHARP-SHOOTER Robert Carlyle is gunning for
Hollywood success - in his own western.
The Scots actor has penned a script charting the story of a band
of brothers who flee to America in 1745 after the defeat of
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army at Culloden.
And he is in talks with the man who wrote the screenplay for Apollo
13 and Sharon Stone's western, The Quick And The Dead,
to direct the blockbuster.
Carlyle, 39, is already rumoured to have asked Ewan McGregor and
Dougray Scott to don ten-gallon hats as co-stars.
The Glasgow star revealed: "The film follows four or five
brothers after the Battle of Culloden when they go to live in
the USA."
The gun-slinging role would give Carlyle, who has already played
a stripper, a policeman and a murderous psychopath, another
acting challenge.
Carlyle, who has just finished work on the World War II drama To
End All Wars, has been working on the project with his
production company, 4Way Pictures.
A spokesman for 4Way said: "The western was Robert's idea
and we've been working on its style, the plot and the characters
involved."
The former painter and decorator shot to fame as a serial killer
in TV drame Cracker and as pot-smoking copper Hamish
McBeth.
His big-screen roles include violent Begbie in Trainspotting,
Gaz in The Full Monty and evil Bond villain Renard in The
World Is Not Enough'.
Carlyle, who most recently starred in the movie There's Only
One Jimmy Grimble, formed 4Way last May with former
Edinburgh Film Festival boss Mark Cousins and director Antonia
Bird.
His box office successes have made him an influential figure in
Hollywood and now, with the help of his Scottish actor pals, a
bidding war for the film rights is expected to break out among
movie giants. |
Copyright 2000 MGN Ltd.
Thanks to Missy for the find!
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