Looking for action, adventure and escapism but fed up with the slew of interchangeable superhero movies pumped out annually by Hollywood studios bereft of wit or ideas? Writer-director Keri Collins may have the answer to your prays – a planned big screen adaptation of Super Gran, the cult mid-1980s children’s TV programme which starred Scottish actress Gudrun Ure as tartan-clad, tammy-wearing superhero Granny Smith, and Ayr-born Iain Cuthbertson as her nemesis, the Scunner Campbell.

Collins has a script for the project ready to go and this week it topped the Brit List 2023, a prestigious annual list of the UK’s best unproduced film and television projects as voted for by a group of industry insiders.

The Brit List was established in 2007 and in previous years has included scripts by David Seidler, Lucinda Coxon, and co-writers Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara. If you don’t recognise the names you may have heard of the films themselves. They are, respectively, The King’s Speech, The Danish Girl, and The Favourite – each one an Oscar winner.

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If you’re already weeping into your latte with joy as you remember fond hours spent watching the original Super Gran, you don’t need me to tell you that the animated title sequence was enlivened by Billy Connolly singing the theme song (“She’s got more bottle than United Dairies”) or that the series was based on the novels of Scottish author Forrest Wilson.

Alongside the regular cast, the Big Yin even appeared in one episode (as Angus McSporran) and there were cameos too for Lulu (as Isla St Porridge) and Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor Who. He played a character called Great Sporran of the Isles. Scan the credits and you’ll also find cameos from Spike Milligan and Carry On legends Charles Hawtrey, Melvyn Burgess, Joan Sims, Bernard Cribbins and Barbara Windsor.

Even George Best made an appearance. He played himself, one of several celebrity drop-ins which included shot putter Geoff Capes, snooker player Willie Thorne, darts ace Eric Bristow and, er, Gary Glitter. He appears in a 1987 episode titled Super Gran And The Racing Cert, which has something to do with pigeons and can still be found on YouTube.

In Collins’s updated 21st-century take on Super Gran, a 12-year-old London boy, who is tired of being told he’s stupid at school when actually he’s dyslexic, is sent to spend Christmas with his Scottish grandmother. He thinks she’s boring and cantankerous but in truth she is anything but. She has super powers, a secret spy base beneath Loch Ness, and a flying 1980s Mini which would make James Bond proud.

Her evil rival (at least as described by Collins’s backer, London-based film and TV production company Brock Media), is “an arrogant tech bro who wants to bring about instant climate change for profit”. Together, grandson and grandmother set out to foil him in his dastardly quest. Think Mary Poppins-meets-Scott Pilgrim Vs The World but with better scenery.

Collins’s CV to date includes his Welsh Bafta-winning debut feature, Convenience. Currently streaming on Netflix, the comedy thriller stars Vicky McClure, Adeel Akhtar and Anthony Head, better known as Giles in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Collins has also directed episodes of CBBC fave Jamie Johnson, and two series of Brexit mockumentary Soft Border Patrol for the BBC’s Glasgow-based Comedy Unit. Among Brock Media’s other ongoing projects is The Outrun, part-funded by Screen Scotland and starring Saoirse Ronan and Paapa Essiedu.

Of course, this isn’t the first time the much-loved series has been pitched for the big screen. There were hopes for a film adaptation during its original two season run, between 1985 and 1987, but instead of the silver screen it was the computer screen it ended up on thanks to a 1985 game released for Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum (“Hit space bar to activate anti-gravity belt” etc.).

And now the big question: who could step into the shoes of Gudrun Ure and Iain Cuthbertson and take on the roles of Super Gran and the Scunner Campbell for the 21st century? Tilda Swinton would be a blast (in either role, frankly) but is perhaps too statuesque for a character who relies on being underestimated by her foes. We’ll have to wait and see. Until then, answers on the back of a packet of Pan Drops, please.