The film is being directed by Stephen Bradley (Boy Eats Girl, The Tale of Sweety Barrett) from his own script and he is also producing along with Melanie Gore-Grimes and exec producer Michael J. Hunt.Production begins on Noblethis week in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It will shoot there for four weeks before moving to Liverpool until March.
The biopic also stars Liam Cunningham (Safe House, The Guard), Brendan Coyle (The Raven, Perrier's Bounty), Ruth Negga (Breakfast on Pluto, Twelve Years a Slave), Nhu Quynh Nguyen (Pearls of the Far East) and Sarah Greene (The Guard).