Robert Carlyle has already enjoyed a successful career in front of the camera and now he is set to make his feature film directorial debut with The Legend of Barney Thomson, in which he will also star.
The Legend of Barney Thomson
The Legend of Barney Thomson had the honour of opening the Edinburgh International Film Festival last night and now the brand new trailer for the film has arrived:
As well as being in the director's chair, Carlyle takes on the central role of Barney in the film and has assembled a terrific supporting cast.
The Legend of Barney Thomson boasts a glittering line-up of homegrown talent as Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Ashley Jensen, Martin Compston, Tom Courtenay, and James Cosmo are all also on board.
The Legend Of Barney Thomson tells the tale of Barney (Carlyle), a hapless barber, devoid of charm and 'patter' as his fellow barbering brethren mockingly remind him. Barney's mediocre, mundane life of plotting for a way up is about to be transformed, following a typically incompetent fit of pique, when he inadvertently stumbles into serial murder, and with it headlong into the trail of a grotesque series of killings gripping Glasgow.
As he makes ham-fisted attempts to cover his tracks, he finds himself on the run from the bearish Detective Inspector Holdall (Winstone) and a testosterone-driven local Police task force at each others throats over the ongoing crimes. With his sanity threatening to unravel, Barney fatefully turns to his domineering, emasculating mother, the formidable Glaswegian 'good-time girl', Cemolina (Thompson).
There's no turning back now and the path that lies ahead for Barney may yet be littered with more murderous consequences than he could have ever anticipated.
Carlyle has taken up the director's chair before with an episode of SGU Stargate University but now he is making the leap into features. It is always exciting when an actor makes the transition to filmmaker and I cannot wait to see what he delivers with The Legend of Barney Thomson.
The Legend of Barney Thomson premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival last night and is released into UK cinemas on 24th July.
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