A new film will look at what happened to the MacLean brothers since the 1996 Glasgow cult classic.
: "A lot of people think of it as a coming of age story with the backdrop of the gang violence in Glasgow in the 60s.
Iain said: "He said he couldn't be less interested in the thought of writing a sequel, but he began to toy with the idea of a follow-up film, an independent film you could watch even if you hadn't seen Small Faces, that you could drop in on and it so happens it's the same characters." Iain said: "Lex was a wee boy who felt responsible for his own brother's murder on a Glasgow ice rink.
Described as a "Glasgow ghost story", the new script sees Lex suddenly faced with his dead brother's resurrection, as a ghost, an apparition, or a reality - he does not know. Bobby, played by Stephen Duffy, has returned from the dead. The film came out just ahead of another huge Scottish film, Trainspotting, and also launched the careers of actors Kevin McKidd and Laura Fraser, who both went on to have a career in acting in the US.Kevin McKidd was cast in both Scottish films and is surprised and delighted at the prospect of the movie, which has the working title Smile.
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