New Movie Poster: PIRATE RADIO
By Norm Schrager at October 11, 2009 | 3:00 pm | Print
In general, most American radio sucks. It’s bland. It’s predictable. It’s fed to the masses by spoon. (Thank goodness for SiriusXM.) The characters in the somewhat, perhaps, maybe-true story Pirate Radio felt that way about UK back in the 1960s. So they took broadcasting into their own hands — literally — by illegally airing rock programming, a move that really pissed off the British government. Pirate Radio, hitting North American theaters on November 13, is written and directed by Brit Richard Curtis, the guy behind Notting Hill (great), Four Weddings and a Funeral (good) and Love, Actually (blah). Here’s the newest poster from the folks at Focus Features. (click on for the biggie)
Personally, I could do without Peter Travers’ review blurb (do people still write “rip-roaring”? Guh.) Anyway, fun cast, especially Richard Lester favorite Bill Nighy. By the way, Pirate Radio is the film’s title in the U.S. In France, it’s Good Morning England; in Germany, it’s Radio Rock Revolution… and everywhere else it’s The Boat that Rocked.
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Although the movie is based on real events in the UK in the Sixties, there is little reality about it, aside from the Government’s hatred and public adoration of the stations.
Focus Films has posted a feature on its website supposedly about the real story of offshore radio in the UK and written by an academic.
http://www.filminfocus.com/article/ahoy__pirate_radio
This article is full of factual errors, the most oft-repeated of which is that the stations were illegal. (They were not, because they were anchored in International waters.) I’ve pointed this out to Peter Bowen, the site’s Editorial Director, as have two of the original ‘pirate’ DJs Colin Nichol and Ian MacRae.and all three of us have been totally ignored.
The Boat That Rocked is fiction and a far cry from reality, but if Focus is going to post a feature about the real pirates, it needs to get its facts right. I’ve been running a website on the subject for over ten years, so I think I’m fairly well qualified to know what I’m talking about.
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- Mary Payne
Thank you for all the details. It certainly sounds like the story is a loose adaptation. Doesn’t mean it won’t make for a good movie, but we really appreciate you providing the real story, for those that would love to read it.
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