Richard Curtis Adapting Trash Novel

Richard Curtis, the screenwriter of Notting Hill and Love Actually, has been hired to adapt Andy Mulligan’s novel Trash.

The tale follows three boys, living in the Third World, who barely make a living by picking through piles of trash. Eventually they uncover a leather bag with valuable contents that sets them on a huge adventure, battling corruption and trying to correct a wrongdoing.

Stephen Daldry will direct. Working Title Films and Kris Thykier’s PeaPie Films will produce. Thykier said, “From the opening pages of Trash, I knew that I had discovered one of the most thrilling, dynamic and inspiring books I’d ever come across.”

“As far as I’m concerned this is the dream-team, and what has really impressed me is their desire to tell the story as it is, without coating it in sugar. They ‘get’ the book, and you can’t ask for more than that,” said Mulligan.

The team aims to start shooting in 2012.

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