Red Rum: The Movie! The Wire's Dominic West unveils new film plans

Red Rum: The Movie! The Wire’s Dominic West unveils plans to turn the three-time Grand National winner into a motion picture, calling it ‘a brilliant underdog story’

• Dominic West has unveiled plans to make a movie about the great Red Rum
• The only horse to win the Grand National three times could make the big screen
• West called Red Rum’s success in the Seventies ‘a brilliant underdog story’

Award-winning actor Dominic West has revealed he wants to make a movie about three-time Grand National winner Red Rum — hailing it as a ‘brilliant underdog story’. 

West, best known for roles in hit TV shows The Wire and The Crown, was at Aintree on Saturday and walked the famous course before the race in what he described as a ‘bit of a research exercise’.

Red Rum, who was trained by Ginger McCain behind a second-hand-car showroom in Southport, where he used to gallop on the beach, remains the only horse to win the National three times — in 1973, 1974 and 1977. He is buried by the Aintree winning post.

West said: ‘I’m hoping to get a film of Red Rum organised. It’s very early stages. I’m hopefully going to direct it. I’d love to play Ginger, but I think I’m too old.

‘It is amazing that it (a Red Rum film) hasn’t been done before. The greatest race in the world, the toughest race in the world, and Red Rum, the bravest, toughest horse there has ever been. It’s extraordinary because it’s a brilliant underdog story.’

Dominic West was at Aintree on Saturday to research a possible Red Rum motion picture

West called Red Rum, (pictured winning his third Grand National in 1977) ‘a brilliant underdog story’

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