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Colin Firth And David Tennant Will Star In Bridget Jones Director's New Comedy
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Bridget Jones director Sharon Maguire has worked with The Young Ones writer Lise Mayer to adapt Alex Comfort’s 1972 book, The Joy Of Sex, into a comedy film.
This will star Colin Firth (Alex Comfort), Julianne Moore (Jane Henderson), Laura Linney (Ruth Harris), Vicky Krieps, and David Tennant.
The movie will focus on a love triangle between husband and wife Alex and Ruth and Ruth’s uni friend, Jane Henderson. It’ll also trace the origins of the manual.
The Joy Of Sex is an illustrated instructive text, marketed as a “sexual cookbook”, that depicted various positions and gave couples sex advice. It sold 12 million copies and changed how the public talked about Doing The Deed.
But its back story is – as Maguire seems to have recognised – a riveting story on its own. The author, physician Alex Comfort, said he worked on the book with his then-mistress (his ex-wife’s former best friend).
Not only that, but the poet claimed his private Polaroids of sex acts served as a basis for the illustrations in the book.
The synopsis of the film reads: “This unconventional throuple in the quiet suburbs of North London challenged societal norms, lasting 10 years.
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