Courtesy of Sunday Sun

SCREEN star Charlie Hunnam is going back to his roots . . . to make a movie about his dad.

The Newcastle-born actor, who rose to fame after starring in the controversial TV series Queer As Folk, now lives in Hollywood where he has a regular appearance in the hard-hitting series Sons of Anarchy, which centres around motorbike gangs.

But he’ll be swapping bikers for Byker, Newcastle, very soon, after revealing how he’s heading home to make a film based on his dad Billy’s life growing up on Tyneside.

Charlie, 30, will write the script for the low-budget project – the second script he has penned recently.

Later this year he’ll see the script he titled “Vlad” – the true story of the historical leader Vlad the Impaler, the real-life inspiration for Dracula – turned into an £85m movie called Blood by Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company.

The former Heaton Manor School pupil said: “I am going to sit down and write something, a very, very small story.

“The budget for Vlad is about £85m. I am going to write a very small and easily financeable story about my dad, actually, growing up in Newcastle. So I’m going to go and spend some time with my dad and write that story.
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