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Sam Riley will be Ian Curtis
09/02/2006 5:10:00 AM - 5:10:00 AM

() Sam Riley has been cast as lead singer Ian Curtis and Alexandra
Maria Lara as his lover Annik on music video director Anton
Corbijn's Control, his fact-based debut feature on UK post-punk band
Joy Division.

It is a first big role for newcomer Riley – the troubled Curtis was
in his early 20s when he committed suicide in 1980 – whereas Lara
played Hitler's secretary in Downfall and has just finished work on
Francis Ford Coppola's Youth By Youth alongside Bruno Ganz and Tim
Roth.

It was already known that Samantha Morton would play Deborah Curtis,
who wrote the book on which Matt Greenhalgh's script is based.
Curtis will also get a co-producer credit, as will former Joy
Division manager and Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, the
subject of the biopic 24 Hour Party People. The producers are Orian
Williams and Todd Eckert from Claraflora.

The Control team is still closing finance but hopes to being
shooting in mid-2006 in Manchester, Macclesfield and other areas of
England.

The film's title was inspired by the classic Joy Division song She's
Lost Control. New Order, the band that succeeded Joy Division, will
be recording new tracks for the film and the soundtrack album will
feature a number of re-recorded Joy Division songs.

Corbijn has worked on U2, Depeche Mode, Nirvana and Metallica videos
and is also known for his photographs of such musicians as the late
Miles Davis, R.E.M., David Bowie and Elvis Costello.