Nick Love is an ace bloke. Not only has he lived most of the stuff he puts in his films, he has an incredible eye for detail which permeates throughout his flicks, really contextualising all the action. And there's usually loads of fighting. And well-dressed geezers. And normal men doing things normal men do. Like take drugs. And the piss out of other men. It's a good recipe, isn't it?

Anyway, Mr Love doesn't stray too far from the shaken-and-stirred bloke cocktail in his next film, a loose adaption of Alan Clarke's classic 1989 TV film, The Firm.

Love's film is set a bit earlier and told from a different character's perspective, but still depicts the grisly tear-ups and inevitable melt-downs of a revered football tribe on the march. And a rather ace array of trackies, punch-ups and 80s coppers to boot.

We're looking forward to it and will be having a decent dripfeed of The Firm related stuff on the Maxim site in the months before its release. So keep checking in.

The more impatient among you can bowl over to www.thefirm84.com for more info. There's a good interview on there with Mr Love explaining why he decided this was his next project. It's interesting.