Ed Sheeran in talks to join Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis movie about a world where the Beatles never existed
Boyle is currently working on the movie in tandem with Bond 25
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Your support makes all the difference.Having dominated the music scene for the last few years, Ed Sheeran has been gradually trying to break into television and film, cameoing in Game of Thrones, Bridget Jones’s Baby, and The Simpsons.
The singer has now entered into talks to appear in Danny Boyle’s next movie – the Richard Curtis penned music-themed comedy tentatively titled All You Need Is Love.
According to The Daily Mail, Sheeran would star alongside Cinderella’s Lily James, Eastenders actor Himesh Patel, and Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon.
Plot details remain spread thin, although rumours have circulated online that the story will focus on a person who wakes up to find that The Beatles never existed yet they remember the Fab Four’s songs.
Boyle has recently been attached to the next James Bond movie, the director currently working on a script for the upcoming spy movie. However, the collaboration with Curtis – the screenwriter best known for Love Actually and About Time - would come first.
Sheeran – the hit-maker behind "Shape of You", "The A Team", and many more – has previously appeared on the TV series The Bastard Executioner and Australian show Home and Away.
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