Scottish filmmaker Kevin Macdonald, known for documentaries including Touching The Void and One Day In September, has revealed an ambition to helm a musical.

“I’d love to make a musical,” he told audiences yesterday (August 16) at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) while taking part in a keynote conversation alongside his brother, EIFF chair and DNA Films producer Andrew Macdonald.

“They say it’s the hardest thing,” reflected Andrew, who has produced one musical in his career, 2013’s Sunshine On Leith directed by Dexter Fletcher, which he described as a “great experience”.

Kevin expressed “jealousy” of Richard Linklater, who is adapting Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, starring Paul Mescal, Ben Platt, Beanie Feldstein and Lin-Manuel Miranda for Blumhouse P

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