Jack O’Connell is set to play Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder in new biopic Twisting My Melon.
He is also set to play Alexander McQueen in Andrew Haigh’s biopic of the fashion designer.
Ryder is the son of John Lennon, Johnny Rotten with a few kilos of John Belushi stamped in.”
Director Matt Greenhalgh said: “Shaun and the last true working-class band – the Happy Mondays – mainlined into my musical DNA when I was 16 years old …