Actors in discussion to star in the film include Stephen Dorff, Steve Coogan and Mos Def, he said.

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Among them is The Look of Love, a biographical portrait starring Steve Coogan as the Soho entrepreneur and adult magazine publisher Paul Raymond.

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The scene in question comes from the action movie spoof Tropic Thunder and involves the character played by Steve Coogan losing his head.

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With the movie within the movie wildly behind schedule and hemorrhaging money, the beleaguered director (Steve Coogan) orders the actors into the jungle of Southeast Asia to improvise.

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The annual accolade - originally known as the Perrier - is now in its 32nd year and has previously been won by comedians such as Lee Evans, Steve Coogan, Frank Skinner and Sean Hughes.

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When their hapless British director (Steve Coogan) is blown up by a land mine, the stars are left to fend for themselves in the jungle, whereupon they are beset by real enemies a horde of drug dealers and forced to fight back.

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"What Maisie Knew, " described as a "contemporary imagining" of a Henry James story, is told from the point of view of Maisie, who is buffeted by her self-involved parents' divorce, especially when her father, played by Steve Coogan, marries her baby sitter (Joanna Vanderham) and her mother takes up with a handsome young bartender (Alexander Skarsgard).

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