Ian Dury biopic on a roll

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Rollwould be an apt title for any number of singer biopics, but it's particularly appropriate for a movie on Ian Dury, who wrote and recorded the exuberant song of the same name.

An art student who contracted polio in childhood, Dury formed the cultish Kilburn and the High Roads in 1971. He enjoyed a string of hits with his next band, The Blockheads, including the singles What a Waste, H it Me with Your Rhythm Stickand Reasons to Be Cheerful Part 3, and the albums New Boots and Pantiesand Do It Yourself.

Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and reprises that role in The Hobbit, will portray Dury in the biopic, which director Mal Whitecross starts shooting on May 3rd. The cast includes Ray Winstone, Naomi Harris, Noel Clarke and Toby Jones. Dury, who died in 2000 at the age of 58, had cameo roles in movies as diverse as Hearts of Firewith Bob Dylan, Judge Dreddwith Sylvester Stallone, Roman Polanski's Pirates and Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.