Curtis Film Stars Branagh, Ifans and Jones
February 19th, 2008 in Actors, Movie News, The Movie Biz
Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans and January Jones will star together on “The Boat That Rocked,” a Working Title production for Universal that Richard Curtis (Notting Hill) wrote and will direct.
Branagh and Ifans play deejays for a pirate radio show in England during the 1970s. Jones, known for her starring turn as repressed housewife Betty Draper in “Mad Men.” She plays an American woman who visits the deejays on the boat and falls in love with her boyfriend’s pal (Ifans). 
The film goes into production March 3 in London.
Branagh next appears in “Valkryie.” Ifans had his breakthrough role in “Notting Hill,” a 1999 movie written penned by Curtis. And Jones had a small role in Curtis’ 2003 romantic comedy “Love Actually.”
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