Julianne Moore has just finished shooting Not I for director Neil Jordan at Shepperton Studios. Composer Michael Nyman is now lined up to score Act Without Words, which is to be directed by Karel Reisz. Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr Ripley) is to direct Play (with Emily Watson, Emma Thompson and Jeremy Irons in the lead roles).

Tom Stoppard is to direct Ohio Impromptu (with John Malkovich as the reader). Jim Sheridan is to direct Rough For Theatre I. Other talent involved in the project (a collaboration between Channel Four and RTE) includes Judi Dench (who is to star in Rockaby), the 96-year-old John Gielgud (who is to star in Happy Days), Atom Egoyan and David Mamet (who are to direct Harold Pinter in Catastrophe), Willem Dafoe and Alan Rickman (who are to star in That Time) and Britpop artist Damien Hirst (who is to direct Breath). Two films have already been shot: Damien O'Donnell's What Where, and Endgame, directed by Conor McPherson (whose Saltwater screened in Panorama).

The idea is to commit all 19 of Samuel Beckett's plays to 35mm film. "We would dearly love to see at least some of them released theatrically...we're still looking at that. But it's a certainty that they will appear on TV," said Richmond.

Geoffrey Macnab