![]() I want to create something here to employ more people” he says. “It’s been good to work on Skye, but ideally I want it to be about more than a single project. Young is the first to point out the irony that, as a struggling film producer, he ended up making a hugely profitable movie only by turning to television - and that he’s now investing these profits in TV production to provide the foundation for a sustainable film company. These include a movie about the Lockerbie bombing, written by Paul Webb (“Selma”) and directed by Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”) an adaptation by Olivia Hetreed (“Girl With a Pearl Earring”) of the classic Scottish novel “The Silver Darlings” and a script by John Collee (“Happy Feet”) inspired by the documentary “You’ve Been Trumped,” about the efforts of a motley band of Scottish villagers opposed to the plans of a megalomaniacal American businessman to develop a golf resort on their land. But he’s now turning his attention back to his film slate, which includes a number of long-cherished Scottish projects. Young took a back seat on “The Inbetweeners 2,” which grossed $56 million last summer, because he was too busy developing his Gaelic hub on Skye. These were spread generously around to the writers, producers (including Young), director, actors and even department heads, and have already run into many millions of dollars, with Young and Bwark earning back an extra 20% tax windfall from every payment. kept the tax credit on any later profit payments to talent. tax credit on the movie costs, but Young Films and Morris and Beesley’s Bwark Prods. ![]() The producer also struck a clever deal under which Channel 4 took the 20% U.K. For every $750,000 earned above $18 million, C4’s stake was reduced, and the producers’ stake increased. ![]() box office in 2012, and sold 3 million DVDs. The film, fully financed by Channel 4, grossed $71 million at the U.K. That spurred him to push for a movie spinoff, where he could share more substantially in the upside. So when “The Inbetweeners” snowballed to success across three seasons, and turned into a bonanza on DVD, Young didn’t hit the jackpot. I had no idea of the value of TV comedy on DVD.” Still, he didn’t accept the initial terms for the series - a low fee and a share of DVD sales. Young admits he was broke at the time “The Inbetweeners” came around. cinema grossers to a Gaelic drama series, that’s a drastic gear change,” Young acknowledges. “To go from doing one of the biggest U.K. ![]() Once those 18 episodes are in the can, he will start looking for international sales. Five more are ready for broadcast this April, and a further 10 scripts will shoot this year. The first three half-hour episodes of the series were transmitted last September, and reached a record 62% of the Gaelic-speaking audience. “Bannan” - a Gaelic word that roughly translates as “family ties” - is about a woman who returns to the hometown she left. With his freshly swollen bank account, his first step was to pitch a drama series to BBC Alba, the ultra-niche service targeted at Scotland’s 60,000 Gaelic speakers. ![]()
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