The Boat That Rocked

Universal Pictures and Working Title Films announced today that principal photography began March 3, 2008, on "The Boat That Rocked", the new comedy about rock and roll, boys and a boat from filmmaker Richard Curtis (Love
Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral).

Inspired by the British pirate radio revolution in the '60s, the majority of the film's shoot will take place in a large rusty metal fishing trawler moored off the coast of England in the very waters that kept the rock of the '60s booming into the U.K.

In 1966 -- arguably British pop music's finest era -- the BBC played only two hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate radio blasted rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours a day. And 25 million people -- more than half the population of Britain -- listened to these pirates every single day.

"The Boat That Rocked" is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the '60s and pop music. It's about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a
generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz.