Curtis goes Radio Ga Ga

Richard Curtis has been tempted back into the cinema with a period piece about the early days of pirate radio. Curtis has completed the script for The Boat That Rocked , a comedy set in the 1960s featuring DJs broadcasting poptastic tunes to a newly swinging nation. Curtis will also direct the film for his usual producers, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan of Working Title who let slip the news at a lunch in Cannes. This will be Curtis's first film without his on-screen alter ego, Hugh Grant. Indeed, Grant's tenure as the Working Title golden boy appears to be over after more than a decade of hits for them such as Notting Hill and Love, Actually. Amid a slew of upcoming projects announced in Cannes, Grant did not feature in any of the future films from Britain's most successful producers. Working Title have, in fact, signed up Brad Pitt for two projects: one with the Coen brothers and the other starring in their big-screen adaptation of BBC drama State of Play. Rumours Brad will play Tony Blackburn on the pirate radio ship too are just silly.