Birmingham film Clubbed to be the next top British movie
Dec 31 2008 by Emma McKinney, Birmingham Mail
A NEW film shot in Birmingham and tipped to be the next top British movie will be premiered in the city at a glamorous red carpet event next month.
Set in the 1980s, Clubbed was shot over five weeks at various locations across the city including Bournville, Sparkbrook and Edgbaston.
Written by Coventry’s martial arts king turned author Geoff Thompson, it’s based on his years as a nightclub bouncer and his autobiography Watch My Back.
Starring Colin Salmon, of James Bond movies Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough fame, it follows a factory worker’s descent into a life of violence after he is humiliated in front of his children and looks to a group of nightclub doormen to give him the confidence to fight back.
And if you look closely, you’ll also see Birmingham City Amateur Boxing Club coaches James Lawlor and Lee Page, who took part in filming in a gym behind the Church of St Agatha in Sparkbrook.
It has been produced by Martin Carr, originally from Warwickshire, who gave up a
