Altitude has boarded feature doc Mad About The Boy – The Noël Coward Story, a chronicle of the playwright, director and wit’s life which is being produced by Barnaby Thompson for Fragile Films and Gregor Cameron for Unigram.
Altitude is handling international sales and UK and Irish distribution.
Coward is known for his films, stage plays and musicals including Brief Encounter, Blithe Spirit and Private Lives.
The documentary is written and directed by Thompson, whose credits include St Trinians and Pixie. Cameron’s credits include Kill Your Friends.
The documentary is supported by BBC Film and BBC Arts, Warner Music Entertainment and AI Film. Executive producers are Will Clarke, Andy Mayson, Mike Runagall, Mark Bell, Rose Garnett, Kate Shepherd, Charles Cohen, Nikki Sopp, Sir Len Blavatnik, Amanda Ghost, Vince Holden, Stanley Buchthal and Bob Benton
Mad About The Boy – The Noël Coward Story will be released in 2023, the 50th anniversary of Coward’s death.
Singer and Queen vocalist Adam Lambert will sing the film’s theme song, an updated cover of Coward’s, Mad About The Boy, which will be released on October 7.
Thompson said: “Noël Coward was a fascinating character. He invented the modern Englishman – witty, sophisticated and stylish – but was born poor and left school when he was 9. He was a sex symbol who was queer in a very straight world and he was exiled from the country he came to define.”
Cameron said: “Unigram is thrilled to help Barnaby Thompson unravel the enigma of Noel Coward and bring to the screen the first ever feature documentary about one of the most talented, accomplished and multi-faceted artists of the 20th Century.”
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