The Daily Mail reported today that JJ will play the character Heinz Burt, a 60's singer, in a film version of the stage play Telstar.

Filming begins next week according to the paper, but they are after extras for filming here between 4th and 18th August.

Think 60's music, 60's (blonde) hair and JJ singing "Just Like Eddie"

About the stage play...

Actor Nick Moran of Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels fame, is set to launch the UK premiere of his debut play, TELSTAR, directed by Paul Jepson, starring Olivier Award winning actor, Con O'Neill; television favourites, Linda Robson (Birds of a Feather) and Adam Rickitt (Coronation Street); and up-and-coming young film star Roland Manookian (The Football Factory, Goodbye Charlie Bright).

Joe and the landlady...
Recording in a twelve-foot square front room and mixing tracks in the kitchen, the now legendary Joe Meek produced three of the biggest selling records of the 60s: ‘Jonny Remember Me’, ‘Have I the Right’ and of course ‘TELSTAR’.

This fast, funny and ultimately tragic black comedy takes us back to the wild times of Meek’s momentous recording sessions, his spiraling career, and his relationships with those closest to him: his band – a ramshackle bunch of local youngsters; his unrequited love for his one-hit-wonder protégé Heinz (Adam Rickitt); his fateful alliance with landlady Violet Shenton (Linda Robson); and his crazy business partnership with Screaming Lord Sutch.