A group of singing Cornish fishermen are preparing to swap fishing reels for film reels after landing a movie deal.
Fishermen's Friends are already on an unlikely wave of success with their new album, which is set to be a top ten hit this weekend after they signed a major record deal.
Now Ealing Studios, which is responsible for a string of classic British movies in the 40s, 50s and 60s, and has recently been revived for efforts such as St Trinian's, is to bring the group's rise to fame to the screen.
The group - who all work on the water down in the Cornish fishing village of Port Isaac - have been performing shanties and folk tunes down at the quayside for years and landed their record deal after a producer visited the village.
Ealing's head of studios Barnaby Thompson said today: "The moment I heard the story of the band and listened to the songs, I knew this could be a great film."
A script is to be written by Nick Moorcroft and Piers Ashworth, responsible for both of the successful St Trinian's movies and Ealing's latest production, the comedy Burke And Hare starring Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis.
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