Exclusive Look At The Wee Man Poster & Trailer Starring Martin Compston

Next month sees the release of The Wee Man starring Martin Compston and today we get an exclusive look at the official poster and trailer for the Scottish based thriller.

With an all-star Scottish cast of John Hannah (THE MUMMY trilogy, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL,), Denis Lawson (PERFECT SENSE, STAR WARS trilogy, TV’s NEW TRICKS), Lorna McMonagle (TV’s LIP SERVICE), Clare Grogan (GREGORY’S GIRL) and Stephen McCole (NEDS, TV’s SINGLE FATHER); the film also stars Hollywood veteran Patrick Bergin(PATRIOT GAMES, SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY) with Rita Tushingham (BEING JULIA, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO).

THE WEE MAN is written and directed by Ray Burdis (LOVE, HONOUR AND OBEY), producer of THEKRAYS, and is based on the extraordinary and well-documented life-story of the reformed Glaswegian gangster Paul Ferris.

THE WEE MAN follows Paul (Martin Compston) growing up an ordinary young kid with decent, hardworking parents in the notorious area of Blackhill, Glasgow and the journey through his teenage years to manhood.

The story begins in the sixties. At the age of just eleven, Paul has already learned that life on thestreet is tough. Everybody knows his place. Poverty breeds corruption, crime, violence and bullying. Blackhill was the most notorious area of all.

The film charts the way in which Paul was bullied as a child, and whose road to crime came as a reaction against the monsters of his youth. Paul worked for feared gangland boss Arthur Thompson Snr (Patrick Bergin) and rose to power in Glasgow’s murky underworld in the late 80s and early 90s. In 1991 he was charged with the murder of Arthur ‘Fat Boy’ Thompson Jr (Stephen McCole), son of Arthur. Ferris sparked a furore when he was given a hero’s reception outside the High Court and walked free after a not-proven verdict, following one of Scotland’s longest murder trials. He was jailed for gun-running in 1998, and on his release in 2002 turned his back on his former gangster life and vowed to go straight, determined to teach others how to avoid a life of crime.

THE WEE MAN will get an limited UK release from 18th January 2013.

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