Director Fergal Reilly's happy to be a wingman for Angry Birds movie

The Irish director of The Angry Birds Movie has admitted he was "sceptical" about turning the hugely popular app into an animated film.

Director Fergal Reilly's happy to be a wingman for Angry Birds movie

The Irish director of The Angry Birds Movie has admitted he was "sceptical" about turning the hugely popular app into an animated film.

Fergal Reilly said Hollywood's record of adapting video games for the big screen was "patchy" because some film-makers were a "slave to the source material".

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