Hail Ian Curtis

I must admit that I completly stole this post from One Louder, but i've never been so excited about music news in a very long time:

"It's been known for awhile now that Anton Corbijn, famed photographer and music director will direct Control, the film based on Deborah Curtis' (Ian's widow) book Touching From A Distance. Today more casting details were revealed and the news is good. Jude Law will not play Ian Curtis. Instead, Sam Riley will portray the doomed singer. I did some searching for Sam Riley and didn't find much. The beautiful Alexandra Maria Lara, a Romanian-born, German raised actress will portray Curtis' lover Annik Honore. Lara is also a relative newcomer to films. She had a leading role as one of Hitler's secretaries in the excellent The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich. Finally, Samantha Morton will play Deborah Curtis.

As reported by NME, New Order, or Joy Division, will record new material for the film's soundtrack. Says Peter Hook: "We were asked to do the soundtrack to the film which I thought was a fucking great idea, for Joy Division to do the music for a Joy Division film because we've never really done a soundtrack before. The soundtrack could include new stuff. Basically Anton wants to use certain songs by Joy Division so that each song becomes a video. Like the way the 'Atmosphere' video was filmed, he wants to write videos that appear in the film."

This will be Corbijn's first film, but given his talent for capturing Curtis and Joy Division's raw beauty and sadness, he seems to be the right choice."

Watch his video for Joy Division's "Atmosphere." It's absolutely beautiful