Ian McKellen on gay romantic comedy play Frank and Percy: ‘A screenplay is being written as we speak’

Sir Ian McKellen (left), and on stage with Frank and Percy co-star Roger Allam (Images: Jack McGuire and Jack Merriman)

Sir Ian McKellen’s hit stage play Frank and Percy is being adapted into a screenplay, the acting legend has told Attitude.

Speaking alongside his co-star Roger Allam in an interview earlier this month, the Lord of the Rings icon said that the play “would make a good film” – before correcting himself and insisting “it will make a good film.”

The story – described by veteran stage star Allam as an “old guy gay rom-com” – follows a straight man in his 70s who strikes up an unexpected connection with a gay man 10 years his senior after the pair bond over their dogs.

“It doesn’t need much tinkering with to make

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