The Boat That Rocked - Pre-production Issues

Question 1 - Whose idea was the film?

When thinking about the processes that occur during the life of a film, it is easy to forget abut the original idea; in the case of The Boat That Rocked, the idea was an orginal one from Richard Curtis, whose influance was from the Radio Caroline story and the 60's pirate radio. Writing the script is only the first stage in getting a film on to the screen, and what Cirtis needed was finance in order to get his idea of The Boat That Rocked onto the big screen, in oder to do this he turned to Working TItle films, which is one of the leading British Production companies with whom he had alreqady workded with on past films such as "Love Actually" and "Notting Hill".


Question 2 - Genre Issues

There had been no isses with the genre of the film The Boat That Rocked, as it is simply a comedy, but on the other hand, it could be said that the only issues that would arise from a comedy film is that people would not agree with the type of humor that they are using, and as far as I am aware from the research that I have taken out there have been no problems or complaints about this.


Question 3 - The Idea

The idea for The Boat That Rocked has been said to be an "Original" idea, but what inspired Richard Curtis was the Pirate Radio sceen which was about in the 1960's and the story of Radio Caroline. And as well as this it aspires specifically to the condition of pop music circa 1966, and to the freedom of those pirate radio stations that would broadcast it to the masses. It wants to recapture the groove and the exhilaration of the 45rpm single, that moment the needle drops on the vinyl and great warm gusts of melody and beat howl out of the speakers.



Question 4 - The Financial Background


Question 5 - Casting

Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Count, "a big, brash, American god of the airwaves"
Bill Nighy as Quentin, the radio station's boss and captain
Rhys Ifans as Gavin, Star DJ
Nick Frost as Dr. Dave, DJ "Big... and very beautiful."
Katherine Parkinson as Felicity, the lesbian cook
Tom Sturridge as Young Carl, Quentin's godson
Talulah Riley as Marianne, Quentin's niece
Tom Brooke as 'Thick' Kevin, Carl's cabin-mate
Chris O'Dowd as Breakfast DJ Simple Simon Swafford
Rhys Darby as Angus "The Nut" Nutsford, DJ
Will Adamsdale as newsreader John
Tom Wisdom as 'Midnight' Mark, DJ,
Ralph Brown as Bob 'the Dawn Treader', DJ, Carl's father
Ike Hamilton as Harold, radio assistant
Kenneth Branagh as Minister Allistair Dormandy (a loose parody of then-Postmaster General Tony Benn), who aims to shut the station down)
Jack Davenport as Dominic Twatt, a civil servant (his full name is only ever referenced in a deleted scene)
Emma Thompson as Charlotte, Carl's mother
January Jones as Elenore
Gemma Arterton as Desiree
Sinead Matthews as Miss C
Stephen Moore as the Prime Minister (Harold Wilson was Prime Minister in 1966)
Olegar Fedoro as the Rock Boat's helmsman

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_That_Rocked"

Pillip Seymour Hoffam, who plays The Count, first role was as a defendant in a 1991 episode of the television series Law & Order. He made his film breakthrough in 1992 when he appeared in four feature films, with the most successful film being Scent of a Woman, in which he played a rather unscrupulous classmate of Chris O'Donnell's character. He had been stocking shelves at a city grocery store at the time before landing the role and credits the film to kickstarting his career.