In today's Telegraph Welsh to direct football hooligan film (Filed: 18/05/2003) Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is to direct his first movie, it has been announced. Soul Crew will be a "high energy, violent drama" about British football hooligans. The Scottish novelist has also written the script for the film which is due to start shooting later this year. His best-selling book Trainspotting was turned into a box office hit starring Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller. But this will be the first time that Welsh, author of Filth, Porno and The Acid House, has gone behind a camera himself.