Bono is working on a movie about an Irish musician who moves to Las Vegas.

Entitled A Version of Las Vegas, it will follow the endeavours of the abandoned son of the musician who emigrated in the 1960s, reports Variety.

The U2 frontman is working with Barry Devlin, a former member of Horslips and writer on Ballykissangel who worked with the band on television films indluding The Making of the Movie Rattle And Hum.

Bono previously wrote the screenplay to 2001's Mel Gibson-produced Million-Dollar Hotel.