Filth feels like a Choke/Trainspotting hybrid
Filth, the newest film vehicle for James McAvoy, now has a trailer. For just over a minute we see what appears to be a Choke-style character study of a man who’s simply a filthy human being. McAvoy seems to be letting loose, and it could be a blast watching him try something a little different.
Want to see young Professor X doing lots of drugs, drinking lots of booze, and having lots of sex? Check out the NSFW trailer and a poster for the film after the jump!
Filth is based on a book of the same name by Irvine Welsh. Word is that the subject material is anything but upbeat, and fans of the prose are insisting that if the film doesn’t stay true to the book in certain regards some of the weight will be lost.
Here’s a plot synopsis of the original material courtesy of Amazon:
With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh’s finest is gearing up socially—kicking things off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam.
There are some sizable flies in the ointment, though: a missing wife and child, a nagging cocaine habit, some painful below-the-belt eczema, and a string of demanding extramarital affairs. The last thing Robertson needs is a messy, racially fraught murder, even if it means overtime—and the opportunity to clinch the promotion he craves. Then there’s that nutritionally demanding (and psychologically acute) intestinal parasite in his gut. Yes, things are going badly for this utterly corrupt tribune of the law, but in an Irvine Welsh novel nothing is ever so bad that it can’t get a whole lot worse. . . .In Bruce Robertson Welsh has created one of the most compellingly misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction, in a dark and disturbing and often scabrously funny novel about the abuse of everything and everybody.
Again, Filth feels like something we could have gotten from author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, Diary), which can be taken as a good or bad comparison. Whatya think? It should be fun to see McAvoy lose himself in an intense role before getting back to his mutant ways for X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Filth stars James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, Eddie Marsan, Jim Broadbent, and Kate Dickie and is set for a UK release in September.