Paul Potts - The Movie

What Next Su-Bo the opera? well Simon Cowell is on board as producer...

According to Risky Business Paramount are going to try to rush through production in time for next summer's Britain's got talent final. They're describing it in "Rocky" terms as a triumph of the undergdog type schtick.

Frankly I think it's a load of nonsense. We don't need a film of this man's triumph, it's already been blanket documented! What more could a film possibly offer? who will they cast to play Potts? if he's to play himself can the fucker act? probably not.

Good news is, it's to be shot in England with English accents, I'm just not sure how well mawkish sentimentality with cheeky chappy awraight luv? englishness (i'm looking at you Matthew Vaughn...). At Least mooted director Julian Jarrold has some decent films under his belt (Red Riding most notably).

Besides all this, nothing's going to top his first audition. You can't remake that shit. That first audition is a climax that can't be stretched out over 90 minuets.

Paul Merton on Hollywood (?)

Paul Merton is to front a series of documentaries for the beeb to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of Hollywood industry. The series will focus on the influence of early cinema on today's movies, and in particular on comedy.


Paul Merton is a genius, and I'll watch anything he does. I haven't seen his previous work on cinema, 'Paul Merton looks at Alfred Hitchcock', and 'Silent Clowns', but now I want to. The Hitchcock piece focusses on the late great's early British work, a body of films sadly much ignored. The work that would come to define Hitchcock was so quintessentially Hollywood, many people forget he was English. Watch The Lodger: London Fog, Blackmail, 39 Steps, or Sabotage, and the great man's status is cemented beyond the familiarity of Psycho or Rebecca or Rear Window.


It should be interesting to see what Merton makes of Hollywood's early days, if he goes beyond the mythologising and cliche, whether he takes on the industrial wrangling as well as the sparkly stars and scandal. 

'Inbetweeners' the movie?

Apparently Film 4 are developing a feature length version of the painfully accurate teenage travails. Will it be just like Kevin ane Perry go large though? or will they stay true to the rather sweeter tone of the tv series. It's nice to see teenagers being treated with a little compassion but the feminazi boner killer in me just has to ask, when will teenage girls be granted the same kindness? 

Yum.