Lock, Scot... but no barrel of cash, Nick

AS a cockney wide boy in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Nick Moran, below, rose to fame and notoriety, punching a photographer unconscious at the première. But his skills as a director cut no ice with Creative Scotland, which refused to fund his film about East Kilbride-born Alan McGee, who discovered Oasis. Despite a script by Trainspotting’s Irvine Welsh, the film is ‘not Scottish enough’. In a withering email, Moran responded: ‘What if we coproduced it with the Bay City Rollers and got Nicola Sturgeon to play Alan McGee?’