Anna Friel, Imogen Poots, Tamsin Egerton Join Michael Winterbottoms King Of Soho

Michael Winterbottom’s King Of Soho finds its queens inside a trio of British stars who’ve boarded the comedy drama about legendary porn writer and club impresario Paul Raymond. Steve Coogan stars as Raymond, a contemporary King Midas who grew to become certainly one of Britan’s richest males because they build a business of gentlemans clubs, adult magazines and nude theaters. Referred to as “King of Soho,” Raymond, natch, brought a colorful personal existence, too. Anna Friel (Unlimited) will have his first wife, Tamsin Egerton (Chalet Girl) his glamour model girlfriend and Imogen Poots (Filth, Fright Evening) will star as his beloved daughter. Coogan, an enormous comedy star within the United kingdom, is better recognized to US audiences for Winterbottom’s recent road movie The Trip too for roles in Tropic Thunder and also the Evening In The Museum movies. Younger crowd formerly teamed with Winterbottom on round-the-clock Party People and Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story. King Of Soho was compiled by Matt Greenhalgh (Nowhere Boy, Control). Film4 developed and co-funded with Studiocanal co-financing. Studiocanal has United kingdom distribution privileges and it is selling the film worldwide. Melissa Parmenter is creating with Film4s Katherine Butler and Studiocanal’s Danny Perkins and Jenny Borgars professional creating. Inside a statement, Winterbottom stated: The King of Soho stories the colourful existence and occasions of Paul Raymond, who started his career on stage being an finish-of-the-pier mind-readers and ended his existence the wealthiest guy in great britan. It’s an ideal role for Steve Coogan which is great we've Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton and Imogen Poots playing the 3 most significant women in the existence.”