A movie based on the life story of Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts has been cancelled.

Simon Cowell had been working with British producer Matthew Vaughn and Paramount pictures on plans for the motion picture and rumours suggested that Jack Black and Vince Vaughn were both being considered for the lead role. However, the rags to riches story will not be going ahead and producer Vaughn is blaming the studios for delaying the project for so long.

Matthew told The Sun:

“It should have gone ahead. Simon and I had a good vision for how the film should be, and it would have been brilliant.

“But the studios were umm-ing and ahh-ing and they missed the opportunity to do it.

“It’s tragic, because the script was brilliant. Simon had done a great job.

“I was looking forward to working with him and it would have been a big hit.”