Danny Boyle is best known for directing Trainspotting

Danny Boyle will spend 15 weeks in the city shooting Millions, the script for which has been penned by Merseyside writer Frank Cottrell Boyce.

Boyle, from Radcliffe in Greater Manchester, will arrive on 6 May to make the comic tale about two boys who stumble across cash stolen in a bank robbery.

The filming comes after the city was used for recent movies The 51st State and Revenger's Tragedy.

Lynn Sanders, film office manager for Liverpool City Council, said the movie will be a "very high profile picture".

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"It's a real coup for the city that Danny has chosen to film it here," she said.

"Danny Boyle has a track record that is second to none and the fact that he has chosen Liverpool to locate the movie is a real vote of confidence in the city."

She said the city has "proved time and again in recent years that we can provide film makers with the locations and support they require".

In the film the boys who find the stolen cash quickly realise they only have a week to spend it as it is in pounds sterling and the UK is about to switch to the euro.

Sir Bob Scott, chief executive of the Capital of Culture company, said news of the film could not have come at a better time.

"Liverpool is rapidly becoming the place to shoot feature films," he said.

Boyle comes from the Radcliffe area of Bury, and went to school in Bolton.