He travelled to Uganda to produce the soundtrack to The Last King of Scotland.
The fictional character of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan in the book and film The Last King of Scotland was loosely based on some events in Astles' life.
This battle is fictionally depicted in the novel The Last King of Scotland.
Amin's personal physician was, in fact, a Ugandan doctor called Paul D'Arbela.
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The 2006 feature film, The Last King of Scotland starring Forest Whitaker, is based on Foden's novel with considerable differences, and Foden himself makes a brief cameo as a journalist at one of Amin's press conferences.
In the past films such as The Jacket, The Last King of Scotland, House of Mirth and others have brought stars such as Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Keira Knightley, Gillian Anderson and Adrien Brody to the city while homegrown classics such as My Name Is Joe and Red Road generated critical acclaim.
In 1978, the International Commission of Jurists estimated that more than 100,000 Ugandans had been murdered during Amin's reign of terror; some authorities place the figure as high as 300,000—a statistic cited at the end of the 2006 movie The Last King of Scotland, which chronicled part of Amin's dictatorship.
He is currently writing a new comedy / drama show with his writing partner Sean Cook (Spooks) being produced by Cowboy Films (The Last King of Scotland, Top Boy) and developing a new satire show 'Mirror Mirror' with Jamie Oliver's Fresh One Productions.