Richard E. Grant will appear in a movie about Ralph Steadman titled “For No Good Reason”. For those who might not have heard the name before, Ralph Steadman is a famous British illustrator of children’s books, as well as magazines, postage stamps and film posters. He is also known for his caricatures, and Steadman had a long partnership with the American journalist Hunter S. Thompson, drawing pictures for several of his articles and books, such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

As far as REG is concerned, Steadman also designed and illustrated the poster for “Withnail And I”.

To go to the official website and to see a trailer for the film, just click here. At the moment there’s not much up there — except for the trailer — but there are a couple of links from the official site to the film’s Twitter and Facebook pages for those of you wanting updates.

The film is scheduled for a 2012 release.

…And Something For The Kids

The KidsOut.co.uk website is currently having a World Stories competition for children to celebrate the launch of their new site. It’s an art competition in which children are invited to listen to a recording of The Three Billy Goats Gruff which has been narrated by Richard. They are then asked to draw illustrations of how they imagine the story would look, and then submit the pictures to the site (either by email or snail mail). The winning pictures will then be used to illustrate the story on the site, and the lucky winners will receive prints of their work to display at their school.

Runners-up will also have their pictures displayed elsewhere on the site, and will also receive a KidsOut certificate. There are two age categories for the competion — one for under 10’s and one for 10-15’s. To read more just go to the KidsOut World Stories Competition page here.

The closing date for the competition is 31st October, 2011.

To listen to Richard reading the story, click this link.