Hugh Grant to be 'Lost For Words'

Hugh Grant is set to take the lead in romantic comedy Lost For words with Chinese actor Zhang Ziyi.

The movie would reunite him with Richard Curtis and Working Title producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, a partnership which has brought films such as Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually to the screen.

The movie would see Grant star as a British actor who is asked to star in a film by Zhang Ziyi's character, a Chinese film-maker.

Further plot details would see Grant's character becoming besotted with the translator on set, only to realise that he is actually falling in love with his director, a development which the translator can then exploit.

Susanne Bier, the Danish director of titles such as We Lost in the Fire and After The Wedding is on board to helm the movie.

Elsewhere, Grant recently paid an emotional tribute to his late mother at a charity dinner.

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