Catriona McPherson's "Scotzilla," the movie

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This was supposed to be a trilogy, about Scot-out-of-water Lexy Campbell and the happy band of weirdoes and misfits that become her new friends when she’s forced to move into the Last Ditch Motel, in fictional Cuento, California.

But Scotzilla – Lexy’s wedding – is book seven, so already you can see why I think maybe if the Coen brothers felt like revisiting the cheerful chaos of Raisin’ Arizona they’d make a great film of my book. (They could start with the first one, Scot Free, and I think it would be called Nothing Goes Boom. The later books’ plots would be in the HBO spin-off series.)

This is fun!

Okay, Lexy is Scottish and I want to be able to watch my own adapted book so the woman who plays her needs to be Scottish too (and not a plucky New Yorker with a good line in “Celtic vibe”). Fern Brady is not actually an actor – she’s a comedian – but hey, it’s a comedy and she’d be perfect. She is quick, witty and deadpan but never cruel. That’s my comedy home: more Schitt’s Creek than The Office (UK – I’ve never seen the US one. It might be as kind as Ted Lasso for all I know.)

Lexy’s newest BFF, Todd (Téodor) Kroger né Mendez, could be played by...[read on]

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