Ken Loach’s Bittersweet Comedy The Angel’s Share Skedded to Shoot in Scotland

By Nick Martin | Apr 22, 2011 | Movie News (0) Comment

The Sweet Sixteen veteran film-maker is coming back to Glasgow to shoot his new movie The Angel’s Share, a comedy about a ned who makes last try to stay out of prison.

Filming on bittersweet comedy The Angels’ Share is set to start next week. The project re-teaming Ken Loach with Paul Laverty, who previously wrote two scripts for Loach – comedy-drama Looking for Eric (2009) and war-drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006). Loach’s long-time producer, Rebecca O’Brien, will be on board the project as well.

Thesps John Henshaw (Looking for Eric) and William Ruane (The Wind That Shakes the Barley) are familiar to director in the same way. Gary Maitland (Sweet Sixteen) and Roger Allam (Tamara Drewe) will costar, along perspective Scottish talent Paul Brannigan, Siobhan Reilly and Jasmin Riggins.

The story follows a new father who nearly escaped a prison sentence and with the help of community support workers in order to create small whiskey distillery.

Loach, 74, said:

We have some great girls in the cast already, but there is definitely room for two more sparky Glaswegians.

So girls who may never have acted before are still welcome to apply.

The picture will be released by eOne in Blighty and Ireland in 2012.

Last year at Cannes, Loach’s very dark and muscular revenge thriller Route Irish brings the War In Iraq home, but fails to live up to its high hopes – eOne then picked up Canadian distribution rights to it.

However, Ken Loach has remained a director appreciated by many since the mid-1960s.