He last brought us misfiring hit man comedy drama Wild Target, but Jonathan Lynn is hoping for more success with a musical buddy comedy. He’s now recruited Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks for **The Hurricanes{
Annalisa D’Innella wrote the screenplay. It follows Kim Ayers, who twenty years earlier was the perkiest member of hit '80s girl-band The Hurricanes. Today, she works as a children’s entertainer and struggles as a single parent. But then an iconic Hurricanes tune is sampled by top rapper MC Freak and shoots straight to number one, so Kim figures the royalties will soon be pouring in.
Kim tracks down Freak but soon discovers that a dodgy contract proves he owes her nothing. Nonetheless, struck by her fighting spirit, he offers her a lifeline. He will let her perform with him, but there’s a catch: he wants all three of the Hurricanes. So Kim must locate estranged band-mates Nicky Bliss, last seen in rehab, and Alex Moon, now an angry feminist poet, and persuade them to resurrect their once chart topping band…
The rights are being sold at the American Film Market right now, with Lynn planning to kick off shooting in February. Hendricks will next be see in Gillian Flynn adaptation Dark Places and Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River, neither of which have secured a UK release yet.