Vaughn to make debut as director

After producing three films for Guy Ritchie - Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Swept Away – Matthew Vaughn will make his debut as a director with an adaptation of JJ Connelly’s London crime novel Layer Cake.

The film will star Road To Perdition actor Daniel Craig as a drug dealer who wants to quit while he’s ahead but discovers powerful forces have no intention of letting him go straight, reports the showbusiness newspaper Variety.