Philip Seymour Hoffman is trading the schlubby suits he sported in Charlie Wilson’s War for some groovy new duds: He’s in negotiations to play the role of irreverent, iconic DJ The Count in writer/director Richard Curtis’s (Bridget Jones’s Diary) The Boat That Rocked. The film recounts the true story of a British pirate radio station that operated from a boat in the North Sea when the BBC was only broadcasting two hours of pop music each week in the ’60s. Other Rocked stars include Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans, and January Jones. Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce the project for Universal Pictures. Filming is slated to begin in London on March 3.
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When I saw the headline “Hoffman in talks for Boat That Rocked”, I immediately thought of Dustin. My girlfriend thought of Robert (Step Up 2). Funny that EW and their writers were to make me think it was supposed to be Philip Seymour Hoffman with that headline? I would have never thought it…
My only question is: “WHICH British pirate station?” In the 1960s, there were several, including Radio London and Radio Caroline. Radio London, for example, was on a converted surplus WWII U.S. Minesweeper packing 50,000 watts of power, anchored in the very rough North Sea. From what I understand, they often had trouble keeping the needle on the record when the ocean got rough, and the DJ’s chair was actually strapped down! You can read about the real pirate stations at http://www.radiolondon.co.uk
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