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Tilda Swinton favourite to play Bowie in Scots director's 'rock n roll trilogy'

MOVIE maker and former Skids frontman Richard Jobson is to direct "a rock and roll trilogy" which will include a sequel to cult film Quadrophenia, a road movie about a reformed punk band starring Jerry Sadowitz and David Threlfall, and an homage to David Bowie – written for Tilda Swinton to play the iconic singer.

The 51-year-old Fifer revealed his plans to the Sunday Herald ahead of the Glasgow Film Festival screening of his new film, The Somnambulists.

Quadrophenia was made in 1979 by Franc Roddam and starred Phil Daniels as pill-popping London Mod Jimmy Cooper. In Jobson's update, currently titled Won't Get Fooled Again after The Who song of the same name, Jimmy has left Britain and followed the hippie trail to India. He returns to London on New Year's Eve 1969. The action then follows him through the 1970s.