BAFTA winner and Golden Globe-nominated actor James McAvoy (Atonement, The Final King of Scotland, Break up) is making his directorial debut with the upcoming movie California Schemin’ (working title). The film is heading to the Cannes market with Bankside and UTA Impartial Movie Group.
McAvoy will tackle a supporting position within the film, which can be led by BAFTA-nominated How To Have Intercourse breakout Samuel Bottomley, and newcomer Séamus McLean Ross, who’s at the moment filming on Outlander: Blood of My Blood.
The movie will chart the true story of two Scottish lads from Dundee who conned the worldwide music business by adopting American accents and pretending to be established Californian rap duo, Silibil N’ Brains.
Within the late ‘90s, Gavin Bain (McLean Ross) and Billy Boyd (Bottomley) had their musical ambitions constantly ridiculed for having the ‘mistaken’ accents in order that they went for broke and reinvented themselves as Californian rappers.
McAvoy’s film will present how the duo re-recorded their very own tracks with pretend accents and turned up in London claiming to be a longtime duo on the Cali scene in addition to childhood associates with Eminem. They rapidly bagged themselves a document deal, a hefty sum in advances, and an look on MTV…till all of it got here crashing down.
At present in pre-production, the function is predicated on Bain’s autobiography of the identical identify, which was later re-printed as Straight Outta Scotland. The story was later tailored into the 2013 SXSW documentary The Nice Hip Hop Hoax.
Archie Thomson (Deep State 2) tailored the screenplay, and Kahleen Crawford can be serving as casting director.
through: Deadline
