Dominic Cooper, Stephen Fry and Rupert Everett Set for Falklands Comedy-Drama

Dominic Cooper, Stephen Fry, Rupert Everett and Finn Cole are set to star in All In The Same Boat, a comedy-drama based on a true story. The film follows a British passenger ferry sent to the Falklands War in 1982, according to Deadline, which reported the casting on 10 November 2026.

Cooper will play Frankie. Fry takes the part of Captain Ellerby, while Everett plays Commander Esplin-Jones. Cole will play Trevor, a paratrooper. Taz Skylar has been cast as Sergeant Major Mal Simpson, and Scott Ellis Watson as Joe. The role of Wendy is still being cast.

The film is written and directed by David Stoddart. He co-wrote the script with Warren Fitzgerald and Tom Williams. It is based on Fitzgerald's book, All in the Same Boat: The Untold Story of the British Ferry Crew Who Helped Win the Falklands War. Christopher Simon of New Sparta Productions is the producer.

Filming is due to start in summer 2027, so the project is still at the casting stage. Playtime is handling international sales, meaning the licensing of the film to distributors outside the United States and Canada. It will co-represent North American sales, the rights for the United States and Canada, alongside UTA Independent Film Group at the American Film Market. That is the deal market in Los Angeles where buyers and sellers meet to trade rights to films that are still being made or are about to be.

Sales work at this early stage matters because it can bring in money before a film is finished. Each buyer that licenses a film for a particular country or region adds to the budget before the cameras roll. A film with a named cast and a finished script gives those buyers something concrete to consider.

For a general audience, the story has an unusual premise. A passenger ferry is not a warship, and a comedy about its crew sits in a different corner of the war film shelf. Fitzgerald's book is the source for the screenplay, which means the story began on the page before it reached the producers and the casting list.

No release date has been announced. The next visible steps are the shoot itself and the sales deals that follow in the coming months.