Story of Brit Pop Kings The Kinks to Hit the Big Screen

12:17 PM PDT 3/27/2012 by Stuart Kemp

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Courtesy of Clive Davis

BBC Films backs Julien Temple’s “You Really Got Me,” being produced by Recorded Picture Co.

LONDON -- An account of the friction between Ray and Dave Davies, the brothers who formed seminal Brit band The Kinks, is tuning up for the big screen nicely.

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BBC Films, the pubcaster’s stand-alone filmmaking arm, is backing You Really Got Me, which is being produced by Jeremy Thomas’s Recorded Picture Co.

Julien Temple will direct from a script being penned by veteran British scribes Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

Thomas has the big-screen adaptation rights to both autobiographies of the brothers Davies.

BBC Films chief Christine Langan told The Hollywood Reporter that she was awaiting a draft for the film with “excitement.”

The project has attracted backing from the British Film Institute’s development fund to just north of £50,000 ($79,450).