There will now be two movies on the short life of Ian Curtis:

Mrs Curtis will act as co-producer to Williams, along with Tony Wilson, whose Factory Records label formed the basis of Winterbottom's film. The highly rated young Manchester writer Matt Greenhalgh, creator of Manchester's BBC drama Burn It will develop Mrs Curtis's book Touching From a Distance into a screenplay.
Wilson insisted yesterday that the rival bid, with London-based Neal Weisman and musical input from New Yorker Moby, could not succeed without Mrs Curtis's co-operation.

I read Touching From a Distance when it came out and the basic problem with it as a biography is that Ian was estranged from the Mrs during the final creative period of Joy Division. She can relate the background of Ian as a school child, but we really don't get an insight into the creative and thus interesting Ian. That will have to wait for his somewhat mysterious mistress, who was there with him on tours and during recordings, to have a turn at writing a biography, or film.

On the other hand, some element of mystery is necessary for any mythology. I used to consider Moby a deeply spiritual musician inspired by Jesus, but then he started blogging and I now know him to be another pedestrian bore, skilled enough to produce pop music. And judging from his faithful covers of Joy Division songs, he'll probably do a competent job in his movie.  ¶ 6:57 AM