Gerard Butler To Play Boxer Lenny McLean

17 August 2011

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Gerard Butler is set to play boxer Lenny McLean in a new movie based on the life of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters.

Gerard Butler is set to play notorious boxer Lenny McLean in a new movie.

The 'Bounty Hunter' actor is being lined up to take on the role of one of Britain's most famous bare-knuckle fighters in the film as producers see him as the ideal person to portray the man known as 'The Guv'nor'.

Insiders said the script - which is based on the book 'The Guv'nor Tapes' - aims to offer "an uncompromising account of his violent and notorious life from his humble beginnings in Hoxton, East London to boxer, bouncer, bare-knuckle fighter, actor, accused murderer and family man".

McLean's story typifies the sheer brutality of growing up in the East End of London through the post-War years, but it is also the journey of a man who finds redemption through the hellish world of bare-knuckle fighting

Jason Statham and Michael Fassbender are also on the wish list for producers if Butler doesn't sign up.

Justin Marciano and Nick Taussig - from production house Revolver Entertainment - will produce the film with Lenny McLean's son Jamie McLean.

Marciano said: "McLean's story typifies the sheer brutality of growing up in the East End of London through the post-War years, but it is also the journey of a man who finds redemption through the hellish world of bare-knuckle fighting."

Lenny - who was often referred to as the "hardest man in Britain" - died in 1998 aged 49, and the film 'Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels', in which he starred as Barry the Baptist, was dedicated to his memory.

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