Universal Pictures
“X-Men” and “Split” star James McAvoy will make his feature directorial debut on a true story tale about two Scotsmen who impersonated an American rap duo in the late 1990s.
Two young men from Dundee, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, were regularly having their musical ambitions ridiculed for having the wrong accents.
So, they reinvented themselves as Californian rappers with the duo re-recording their own tracks with fake accents. They hit London claiming to be an established duo known as Silibil N’ Brains along with being childhood friends with Eminem.
The film, which is currently untitled, will show how they quickly bagged themselves a record deal, landed hefty advances, and an appearance on MTV before their dream crashed and burned.
The story was previously adapted into 2013 SXSW documentary “The Great Hip Hop Hoax”. Guy J Louthan’s Homefront Productions is backing the new project which will shoot next year with the majority to be filmed in Scotland. Casting will begin later this year.
McAvoy is currently filming Blumhouse horror tale “Speak No Evil” and will soon appear in the LaKeith Stanfield-led religious comedy “The Book of Clarence”.
Source: Deadline
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