Simon Cowell’s One Chance Lands at Paramount

One Chance, the Simon Cowell-produced story of a rags-to-riches reality music star, is moving ahead at Paramount, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Justin Zackham (The Bucket List) has been brought on to pen the screenplay about the life of opera singer Paul Potts, the title relates to the singer’s last-ditch effort to make a career in music by competing on the Britain’s Got Talent television show.

An amateur opera singer and mobile-phone salesman, Potts was riddled by a streak of bad luck when, on a lark, he auditioned for “Talent” in 2007. His on-air performances ended up bowling over audiences and judges, including Cowell. He went on to win the show and become a media and YouTube sensation, eventually going on a global music tour and releasing an album.

The film is expected to be a comedy-drama that tracks Potts’ hard-luck story up through his Talent performances.

Cowell is also shopping around Star Struck, a scripted tale about a musical reality show.