A new biopic about classic double act Laurel and Hardy is in the pipeline. Director Jon S Baird describes it as "a love story between two guys who come to realise they can’t live without each other."
Stan and Ollie will centre on the duo during their farewell tour of the UK in 1953-54.
Speaking to Scotland on Sunday, Filth director Baird said; "It’s a really, really beautiful tale . . . It also tells the story of their off-screen personas, which were quite different to what people would imagine knowing their on-screen ones.”
Baird added “Stan was very much the driving force, Ollie was more relaxed, he just loved golfing and betting on the horses.
"Once he’d finish for the day, he’d be off, and though he would be consulted on the script ideas when they were rehearsing, he didn't write the stuff, Stan wrote everything, I think he was a real tortured genius.”
