has optioned the rights to Graeme Armstrong’s acclaimed debut novel “The Young Team,” with BAFTA-winning “The Last Czars” helmer Adrian McDowall on board to direct.
Published by Picador Books in 2020, “The Young Team” is set in the housing schemes of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire — Scotland’s former industrial heartland — where teenage boys are sucked into a world of gangs, booze and blades culture. The story turns on 15-year-old Alan ‘Azzy’ Williams, who joins the Young Team just as a brutal conflict with their rivals, the Young Toi escalates.
Set against the backdrop of Scotland’s decaying high streets and deprived small-town communities, the story is billed as an “ultra-realistic portrait of a territorial gang conflict and so-called ‘recreational violence’ that earned neighbouring Glasgow the title of Europe’s ’Murder Capital’ by the World Health Organisation in the same period.”
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