Gary Barlow wants to make a Take That movie

Pop star Gary Barlow wants to bring the story of Take That to the big screen in a movie re-telling of their rise to fame.

The singer has previously been approached about plans to chart the group's story in a stage musical, but he would prefer to see the project in cinemas.

He tells The Sun, "We've been offered musicals and talked about them for years but never a film. It is one of those stories ours, where if you wrote it down and gave it to someone they'd go, 'Well, it's a good story but it wouldn't come true'. It feels like 20 years of madness, but it is a good story."

Barlow also reveals his dream cast would include Hollywood superstars Brad Pitt and Matt Damon playing his bandmates, adding, "I'd definitely have James Cordon to play me - he's such a great bloke, I love him. Howard Donald always thinks he looks like Willem Dafoe, so that would be a good one. Jason Orange is a bit Brad Pitt. Who'd be Mark (Owen)? It'd be ) Ant or Dec, or you could even do both. And probably someone like Matt Damon should take on the role of Robbie Williams."

Barlow even has a writer in mind for the project - Blood Brothers playwright Willy Russell: "Someone British should definitely make it. I'm not that hot on films but I could see someone quite northern and funny coming up with it... Willy Russell, he's done plays but he's also done films. He's the sort of guy that would be great - I think we should get him to do it."

The boyband shot to fame in the early 1990s, but split in 1996 following the departure of Robbie Williams.

Take That made a triumphant comeback 10 years later in 2006 and they reunited with Williams for a successful tour and album in 2010.