Comedian and activist Russell Brand is reported to be working on a new documentary film about the global financial meltdown with director Michael Winterbottom.
The director of The Killer Inside Me and 24 Hour Party People describes the planned film as "a polemic" which will examine "why nothing has changed" since 2008.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's arts show Front Row, he said: "It's about inequality and why the 1% [of the world's wealthy] seem to have so much and the rest of us not quite so much."
Winterbottom says he had been trying to work with Brand for a while and became a fan of his writing after reading the comic's 2007 memoir.
"I tried to work with him ages ago when he first wrote Booky Wook and we talked to him about doing a more dramatised version but it didn't happen. So this is a chance after a lot of years to have another go."
He added that with Brand's involvement, he hopes "it's going to be funny".
Brand posted the first reading from his new book Revolution during the week.
