Paddy Considine Confirms The Years Of The Locust

Paddy Considine, the actor whose staggering directorial debut, Tyrannosaur, won him a prize at Sundance last January and has just landed him the BAFTA for outstanding debut has confirmed to Deadline that his next project will be an adaptation of Jon Hotten's book The Years of the Locust. Set in America's South in the 1990s the book tells the true story of an obese ginger-haired Elvis Presley obsessive who sets out to become the next Don King, meets a fighter who he hopes will become a champion, but ends up dead after wreaking havoc and mayhem across the South. It's quite a way from the dark heart that brought us Tyrranosaur but this 'scary, sad and blackly, bleakly funny' insight into the noble art sounds like it might make a cracking movie. What do you reckon?