Bid to make 2007 West Cork drug bust a movie starring Cillian Murphy

He’s the 2005 elephant polo world champion; he was Ireland’s first ever competitor in the Sumo world championships in Japan; he holds the world-record for the three-legged marathon in Cork, and founded the whacky Paddy Games.

Now, Irish-born solicitor and adventurer Colin Carroll has turned screenwriter and launched a quest to transform his award-winning screenplay, Just Ryan, inspired by the biggest drugs bust in Irish history, into a big-screen, action-thriller blockbuster.

“It’s like the Irish James Bond,” Carroll said yesterday from Paris, where he is on the European film festival circuit, and chasing leading directors.