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16th Jul 2013

Vince Vaughn to play GAA-obsessed Galway publican?

He's so money...

Eoghan Doherty

Rumours are abound that Hollywood star Vince Vaughn may be in line to star in a new film about a GAA-obsessed, London-based Galway publican.

Up for a possible film adaptation is the excellently named Sex, Flights and Videotape, a RTÉ Radio documentary that followed the rise of Ambrose Gordon, a Galway man who, during the 1980s, smuggled thousands of pirated copies of The Sunday Game over to London to sell on to Irish emigrants.

What a genius. Take that Dragons’ Den.

Selling the videos off the back of a fleet of motorbikes, Gordon quickly made a name for himself and, from the few anecdotes we’ve heard already, it seems that the man is perfect for the Hollywood treatment.

He even claims to have had more girlfriends than Rod Stewart…

Sounds like Vince has a lot to live up to.

According to The Irish Post, producer Kevin Byron Murphy has dismissed the rumours commenting, “we are in the middle of another project, but links like that are good fun.”

Gordon, on the other hand, has said “I heard that he was doing it and that would be great for the film. Everyone now is asking me for a part in the movie. It’s a pity I wouldn’t be able to dig out all the old girls from Coppers that I had back then. But sure they would be like Rita in Coronation Street by now.”

Whatever way the casting does pan out, it’ll be an improvement for Vaughn as he definitely can’t do any worse than his awful, awful release from last week, The Internship.

More like The Internshit if you ask us.

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