Having written and directed perhaps the worst film I saw in the last decade with the music themed comedy The Boat That Rocked (it went by the name of Pirate Radio in the U.S.) - the nauseating
Richard Curtis has now attached himself, fittingly, to adapt a book titled
Trash for Working Pictures. Fitting because that's exactly what I thought of his last film.
Variety say Curtis will adapt
Andy Mulligan's childrens book for director dramatic helmer
Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliott, The Hours, The Reader), "about three boys who scrape a living picking through rubbish mounds. One day they discover a leather bag, whose contents plunge them into a terrifying adventure, pitting their wits against corruption and authority to put right a terrible wrong". The book was published late last year but has already amassed a big fanbase that supposedly appeals to adults as well as children. Production will begin in Brazil next year, around the same time both Curtis/Daldry hope their respective pictures War Horse (directed by Steven Spielberg from a Richard Curtis script) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Tom Hanks/Sandra Bullock starrer, directed by Daldry) might be in Oscar contention.