Everyone’s favourite British writer, Richard Curtis (who is also the man behind Comic Relief) is to adapt the adventure novel TRASH for the big screen. The story, according to Variety, is “a contemporary thriller set in the Third World, about three boys who scrape a living picking through rubbish mounds. One day they discover a leather bag, whose contents plunge them into a terrifying adventure, pitting their wits against corruption and authority to right a terrible wrong.”
Stephen Daldry (he who directed THE HOURS and BILLY ELLIOT) is helming the film for Working Title and PeaPie Films.
Andy Mulligan wrote the novel, and is clearly impressed by the news of the teaming of Daltry and Curtis.
“As far as I’m concerned this is the dream-team, and what has really impressed me is their desire to tell the story as it is, without coating it in sugar. They ‘get’ the book, and you can’t ask for more than that.” He told the trade.
Shooting will kick off in 2012.
