Emma Thompson Is Mom To "Barney Thomson"

Emma Thompson will star in the dark comedy-thriller "The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson" says THR

Robert Carlyle plays a Scottish barber who, through a series of accidental events, stumbles into the world of serial murder.

Thompson will play Barney's emasculating mother.

Ray Winstone plays a detective inspector in charge of an inept homicide department. Ewen Bremner also stars.

Richard Cowan and Colin McLaren wrote the script, based on the Barney Thomson novel series by author Douglas Lindsay from which Carlyle makes his directorial debut

John G. Lenic and Kaleena Kiff are producing the film