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Shane Meadows has confirmed plans for a This Is England '90 improvisation session in January.

The The Stone Roses: Made of Stone director told Digital Spy that the project could overtake his planned biopic of cyclist Tom Simpson if the session goes well.

"Tommy Simpson's a bit further ahead because there's a script in hand, but then we're going to hopefully sit down with some of the key cast in January and do a bit of a Meadows impro session," Meadows said.

"That could pull it up on the outside and make it late winner to shoot for next year, so we'll see what happens."

Meadows added: "It's a nice pressure to have, because miracles happen in those rehearsal sessions with those amazing actors sat in a room together.

"Something might happen there, so we're keeping a really open mind and Channel 4 and FilmFour are happy for us to go whichever way.

"Hopefully there'll be an official announcement reasonably soon and we'll get rolling. They're both going to get made, but it depends in which order."



The director's 2006 movie This Is England spawned TV follow-ups This Is England '86 in 2010 and This Is England '88 in 2011, but work on the 1990 catch-up was halted while Meadows made his Stone Roses documentary.

He previously told DS that the series will be about the younger characters "getting into the Roses and getting into that scene and going clubbing and going raving and all of that", as well as the rehabilitation of Combo (Stephen Graham).

Meadows added that he hoped the series would be a "full stop" on the characters, because he does not want to end up ruining it by pushing things too far.

Graham later told us that it will be " very sad for everyone involved with the finale" when the series comes to an end.


Digital Spy


-crosses fingers-