AARON SORKIN TO WRITE FILM ABOUT NORWICH UNION

WEST Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is to make a feature-length movie about insurance giant Norwich Union.

'Norwich will be my star' said Sorkin

The scriptwriter said Eight Days in Norwich would tell the story of how the company grew from small Norfolk roots into a national business with a strong position in motor coverage.

Martin Sheen will star as the Nobel Prize-winning chief executive who uses modern statistical methods to assess risk while secretly undergoing treatment for sciatica.

Friends star Matthew Perry will play a lawyer who campaigns for reductions in compulsory excess after his wife is forced to pay £150 towards the repair of a scratch to her rear bumper which was not even her fault.

Sorkin said: "The film opens with a tracking shot of a dozen men in their late fifties, all dressed in dark suits seated round an oval table.

"They're discussing 'Quote Me Happy' when suddenly one of them slams down his coffee mug. He then looks up and says 'sorry, that was an accident'."

Sorkin added: "We'll also have lots of people walking along corridors in Norwich talking about actuarial models and why no one wants to sleep with them."

Dick Hart, editor of Cut! magazine, said the film would combine long periods of boredom with short bursts of utter tedium.

He added: "It'll be the most important film about the insurance industry since Francis Ford Coppolla's Direct Line trilogy."

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