Irascible British music mogul Simon Cowell is planning to branch out from the American Idol talent contest that he pioneered to produce a movie about the winner of a British talent show he organized, according to The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday. ( dpa )
The project, about the life of opera singer Paul Potts, will be called One Chance, based on the singer's last-ditch effort to make a career in music by competing on the Britain's Got Talent television show.
An amateur opera singer and mobile-phone salesman, Potts auditioned for the show in 2007, and after a string of sensational performances won the show and embarked on a global music tour.
The movie, which represents Cowell's first effort on the big screen, will be a comedy-drama that tracks Potts' hard-luck story up through his Talent performances. No details have yet been released on the cast.