A new film based on the hit stage musical Greatest Days will star Irish actress and comedian Aisling Bea.

Like the original production, the film of the same will be based on the music of the seminal '90s boyband Take That.

Coky Giedroyc (How to Build a Girl) will direct the big-screen adaptation, written by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls) and will be made with the band's full support.

On her casting in the movie, Bea says that "after two years of a pandemic, I am ready to 'Relight My Fire' and get singing and dancing in this feel-good joy fest of a movie. I have long waited for Take That to know who I am. I've played the long game, but I feel like I am now so close. My dream is for them to ask me to sing the Lulu solo on stage, so I hope they read this quote and take THAT into consideration."

It's the second musically related film she's starred in recently, after a turn in the Sky Original Riverdance: The Animated Adventure.

The other actors announced for the project include Jayde Adams (Serious Black Jumper, Alma's Not Normal), Alice Lowe (Black Mirror, Sightseers), Amaka Okafor (The Responder, The Split), Marc Wootton (Nativity), Lara McDonnell (Belfast), Jessie Mae Alonzo (Little Joe), Nandi Hudson (Army of Thieves, The Nest), Carragon Guest and Eliza Dobson.

Principal photography for Greatest Days gets underway this April.