Scottish actor James McAvoy has announced that he’s planning to star in the crime film Welcome to the Punch, to be shot in the UK. It will be written and directed by Eran Creevy, whose debut was the low-budget, BAFTA-nominated drama Shifty in 2008 with Daniel Mays and Jason Flemyng. The story follows London detective Max Lewinsky (likely to be McAvoy’s role), who gets pulled into a big conspiracy plot after the reappearance of his old nemesis, an armed robber known as Red Diesel. Creevy has described the film as “an epic crime thriller in the mould of Heat or Internal Affairs.” It promises to have the kind of scope and action usually more associated with Hollywood films.
Filming is expected to start in July, which would still leave McAvoy enough time for his rumoured reunion with Joe Wright (director of Atonement), on the film adaptation of Anna Karenina.
James McAvoy’s diverse career has seen him star in such films as Wanted, The Last King of Scotland, Atonement and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He can next be seen at cinemas as a younger Charles Xavier / Professor X in X-Men: First Class, which is released on June 2nd.
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