No matter how many schmaltzy entertainments he writes and/or directs, Richard Curtis will always be the co-creator of Blackadder (along with Rowan Atkinson and Ben Elton). I just wonder how someone so clearly witty and intelligent can live with Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason on his conscience.
I doubt he’ll reverse this schmaltzy course with The Boat That Rocked, his sophomore directorial effort after the lucrative (and played-to-death-on-cable) Love Actually. Kenneth Branagh and Rhys Ifans will star as a pair of deejays who run a pirate radio station (on a boat!) during the 1970s. The water gets awfully choppy when Ifans falls for his best mate’s girlfriend, an American lass played by January Jones. I can’t tell from Variety‘s plot synopsis if Jones plays Branagh’s girlfriend, or if the pal in question is some other, as-yet-uncast British “Baxter” (i.e. Colin Firth). Either way, I’m sure the film will end with the entire cast rushing all over London as they try to reunite the meant-to-be-together Ifans and Jones.
This is one of those Universal/Working Title co-productions, which means the latter’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce (with Hillary Bevan-Jones and Curtis). The film begins shooting this March in Lon-don.
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Blackadder ,indeed, was great (especially parts II & IV) but everything Atkinson, Curtis and Elton (especially Elton) have done seperately stinks.
English pirate radio stations actually did operate from boats in the 1970s, since it put them outside of the legal broadcasting limits.
This sounds promising. Ifans and Branagh are two kick asss actors if they can be roped in from over-acting and Curtis definately has the chops for witty, but fluffy humor. I take "Love Actually" for what it is: a fun movie with shitloads of awesome actors in it. Plus Billy Bob Thornton as the US President is the balls!
Is January Jones that chick who married Wayne Gretsky? 'Cause "The Flamingo Kid" ruled.
That's janet jones, who also starred in many of my teenage fantasy epics.
january jones is a former mode who's cute but not as cute as janet.
here's january's IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005064/
Rhys Ifans? Jeez, those British names just get weirder and weirder.
welsh names have always been messed up
I blame… well, the welsh
I think that's the first time I've blamed the welsh for something they did
Phil Owen will rot your brain.
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