Ian Dury isn't a name that comes first when you think of the founders of Punk Rock. You think either Joey Ramone, Johnny Rotten, Iggy Pop or Alice Cooper. Even if you don't put him on the Mt. Rushmore of Punk, his story is interesting enough to make a movie.

The result is Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, named for his signature song. Lord of the Rings and King Kong actor Andy Sirkis will play the personality. It's safe to say that he will not wear the motion capture suit for the roll. Ray Winston plays his father, William Dury. Also in the cast Olivia Williams, Naomie Harris, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Cook.

The basic crux of Dury's life was that he survived polio, which handicapped him throughout his life. Many of his songs like "Crippled with Nerves," "Spasticus Autisticus" and "Hey, Hey, Take Me Away" addressed his tough upbringing.

Dury's first band, Kilburn and the High-Roads, didn't make much of an impression, but a nice footnote is that their last gig in 1976 had Sex Pistols and The Strangers as opening acts.

His claim to fame is that in introduced the phrase "Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll" via the song "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll". That song would be credited to his band Ian Dury & The Blockheads, even though Dury recorded it on his own.

The film should hopefully but introduce Dury's music to a new generation. I'm looking forward to Sirkis's performance. It wasn't necessarily his music that was "punk," it was Dury himself who embodied the movement.