directed by: Julian
Simpson
writing credits: Julian Simpson
Eddie plays Mr. Peter
Hume, a forensic scientist.
Here are some pictures that I stole from the Cake or Death site:
Eddie
doing interview
Talking
into a dictaphone
plot summary (iMDB):
After a night spent trying to impress a beautiful woman in his local bar,
Jasper (Stephen Mackintosh)is pleasantly surprised when she agrees to
go back to his place. What he has not foreseen is that his apparent good
fortune will plunge him into a nightmare world of murder, extortion and
corruption. As an intricate web of deception and fear wraps ever more
tightly around Jasper, the complexity of what he has stumbled into becomes
terrifyingly clear.
Summary written by Sandra Hebron
NOW EDDIE'S APPEARING IN A FILM NOIR
Cross-dressing comic Eddie Izzard is to swap frocks for fingerprints by
starring as a forensic scientist in a new movie opposite Vanity Fair star
Natasha Little. The stand-up comedian, who this week performed for Prince
Charles at a sell-out London charity show, will star in film noir The
Criminal.
Shooting begins in London next week on the movie, which also features
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels star Steven Mackintosh and Bernard
Hill, whose credits include blockbuster Titanic and TV classic The Boys
From The Blackstuff.
Izzard has already cut his teeth in the film Velvet Goldmine with Ewan
McGregor, as well as in last year's box office flop The Avengers.
Mackintosh stars as an out of work musician, J, who becomes a murder suspect
when a woman is found dead in his flat. He has a three-day race against
the clock to clear his name.
Writer and director Julian Simpson said: "Striking the right balance
between light and dark is the key to this film. "I think the script
achieves it and I think the strong cast and crew will reinforce this."
