Jack O’Connell (“Skins,” “Eden Lake”) is attached to star in the new prison drama “Starred Up” at Sigma Films, Film4 and Creative Scotland says Screen Daily.
The story deals with a 17-year-old boy who meets his father for the first time since he was a toddler when he is transferred from a young offender’s institute to an adult prison where his dad is serving time.
“Perfect Sense” and “Young Adam” director David Mackenzie helms the project from a script by poet and psychologist Jonathan Asser. Shooting kicks off early 2013 in the Crumlin Road Prison in Belfast.
