Multi-award winning Trainspotting and T2 director Danny Boyle is to work as executive producer on a new feature length film based on the life of Glaswegian music mogul Alan McGee.
Penned by acclaimed novelist Irvine Welsh and starring Ewen 'Spud' Bremner as the infamous record label boss, 'Creation Stories' is based on McGee’s autobiography, “The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves and Running a Label”.
Having grown up in Glasgow, McGee attended King's Park Secondary School (where he met future Primal Scream founder Bobby Gillespie), and co-founded Creation Records in 1983.
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The pioneering label had a roster of bands such as Oasis, Primal Scream, My Bloddy Valentine and The Jesus & Mary Chain, with McGee famously discovering the Gallagher brothers one night at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut back in May of 1993.
The film is billed as "a story of relentless ambition, mental torment, drugs, bankruptcy, unfathomable wealth, courting politicians and of how one written-off young Glaswegian upstart rose to irrevocably change the face of British culture".
And with Irvine Welsh having both a close relationship with McGee and first-hand experience of Creation Records’ trials and triumphs, he seems better positioned than anyone to bring the story of the label head’s dizzying highs and lows to the big screen.
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In response to the film he said: “I’ve been lucky to work with both Danny and Nick over the years and to have the two of them together on this project, along with Ewen, feels like a lottery win.”
The cast of the movie also includes British talents such as Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince, My Best Friend’s Wedding), Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation, Charlie Says) and Jason Flemyng (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch).
While Nick Moran, best known for his role as Eddie the card sharp in Lock, Stock will be directing the production.
He said: "Working as a team with Danny on this film is a dream. The last time him and Irvine [Welsh] worked together they changed the world of cinema."
Shooting for the film will commence in London late next month.
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