Bono to make showband movie

Bono is developing a new movie about an Irish musician who emigrates to the US to work with a showband in Las Vegas.

The comedy-drama, titled A Version of Las Vegas, deals with the attempts by the son the musician abandoned in Ireland when he left his native land in the 1960s to track down his father in the gambling capital.

The U2 singer has teamed up with fellow Irishman Barry Devlin to make the movie.