Work Starts On Paul Potts Movie

Work has started on Paul Potts: The Movie.

The Simon Cowell-produced rags-to-riches tale of the mobile phone salesman from South Wales who became an international reality TV music star is “moving ahead” at Paramount.

The film will be called One Chance and will be written by Justin Zackham who penned the Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman movie The Bucket List.

Paul was an amateur opera singer riddled by a streak of bad luck when, on a lark, he auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent in 2007.

He went on to win the show and become a media and YouTube sensation, eventually going on a global music tour and releasing an album.

The film is expected to be a comedy-drama that tracks Potts' hard-luck story up through his Talent performances.