 was adapted for the stage as a musical; under the direction of Ken Alexander, it was performed at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.In June 2016 a remake of the film was premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival; Eddie Izzard played Waggett and Gregor Fisher took the role of Macroon.The critic Guy Lodge, writing for "Variety", thought it an "innocuous, unmemorable remake" and that there was "little reason for it to exist".