Three new crews on board Richard Ayoade's "Submarine"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

Richard Ayoade's "Submarine" has three new crews coming on board!

Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine and Sally Hawkins have joined Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Michael Sheen and Paddy Considine to star in TV writer/director Richard Ayoade's feature debut "Submarine," according to Variety.

The movie, which is adapted from Joe Dunthorne's novel of the same name, is about a 15-year-old Oliver Tate who is on a quest to lose his virginity to a pyromaniac bully and to stop his mother leaving his father for her capoeira teacher.

Film4, the U.K. Film Council's New Cinema Fund, Wales Creative IP Fund and Film Agency Wales funded the movie, in which Warp Films collaborated with Red Hour Films to produce.

Producers are Andy Stebbing, Mark Herbert and Mary Burke.

Ayoade is best known for his role as a technically brilliant but socially awkward Maurice Moss in Channel 4's "The IT Crowd", having won the award for an outstanding actor in a television comedy series at Monte-Carlo Television Festival for his performance.