Casting has been taking place by the sets this Presidents Day. Following suit, Working Title has picked up Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans and January Jones for The Boat That Rocked.
Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans, January Jones for The Boat That Rocked
Branagh and Ifans play deejays for a pirate radio show in England during the 1970s. January Jones, who is best known for her starring turn as repressed housewife Betty Draper in Mad Men, plays an American woman who visits the deejays on the boat and falls for her boyfriend's pal; played by Ifans.
Richard Curtis will direct off a script he wrote.
The Boat That Rocked enters production the beginning of March in London.
You can next see Branagh in Valkyrie. January Jones has a bit of a history with Curtis, having had a small part in the director's romantic comedy Love Actually.