Film deal for self-promoting singer

A struggling singer has landed a film deal to tell of her battle to find success – before even releasing her debut album.

Lotte Mullan, 25, has been recording her experiences in a blog which became cult reading and attracted the eye of a literary agent.

Now her frank entries about her efforts to find a deal, and love, are to form the basis of a film after impressing producer Nick Moorcroft, who has scripted films such as St Trinian’s and Burke and Hare.

Ms Mullan is expected to rake in more than £1 million as a result of the deal to bring to life her online diary. It will tell of her encounters while doing part-time work experience at one of the world’s biggest labels, Warner Bros Records, as well as a stint at Sony.

Despite building contacts in the industry she was rejected by firms and formed her own label, recording her album, making videos on an iPhone and booking her own gigs.

Her self-promotion led magazines such as Mojo and Q to review the early version of her album, which has now been revamped for another release next month.

Agent Julian Alexander, of the LAW agency, read her blog and signed her as a promising author. Then Mr Moorcroft got on board, describing the proposed film as a music industry-based meeting between The Devil Wears Prada and Bridget Jones’s Diary.

Mr Alexander said: “Lotte has an original voice that works as well on the page as it does in song.”

A delighted Ms Mullan said: “I’m overwhelmed. My diary was just something I did as therapy. It’s an account of me chasing the dream. It’s all the highs and lows that can happen when you choose to do something that you love for a living.

“The fact that this could be a Hollywood blockbuster is beyond my comprehension.”

Mr Moorcroft said: “Reading a woman’s personal diary is a bit like going through her knickers drawer. It is something you just don’t do. Thankfully, Lotte allowed me to share her hilarious and eye-opening account of her journey trying to make it in the cut-throat music industry whilst simultaneously searching for Mr Right.

“Her daily entries are painfully honest, very funny and at times heartbreaking, which has provided us with rich source material for what we hope will be a genuinely funny and uplifting coming-of-age story.”

A book will also be published next year.