I'm very excited to be working with Michael Winterbottom again. Like 24 Hour Party People, we want to capture the life of an extraordinary man living in extraordinary times.Winterbottom said in a statement:
The King of Soho chronicles the colourful life and times of Paul Raymond, who began his career on stage as an end-of-the-pier mind-reader and ended his life the richest man in Britain. It's the perfect role for Steve Coogan.Friel will play his first wife Jean, a former show dancer, Egerton will play his mistress, glamour model Fiona Richmond, and Poots will play his beloved daughter Debbie. Debbie became her father's confidante, but she died of a heroin overdose in 1992; Raymond died in 2008 aged 82. Poots revealed:
She was very tragic. She was so clever, but addiction to drugs got her.The screenplay is being penned by Matt Greenhalgh, who previously adapted a biography of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis into the acclaimed 2007 film Control, based on Paul Willetts' biography Members Only: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxq-I_e_KXg[/youtube]
The Trip – Official Trailer
Steve Coogan – Paul Raymond
