Timberlake being headhunted to play Rotten

Former boyband singer Justin Timberlake is being lined up to play one of the most controversial figures in rock history in a new biopic - the Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten.

Rotten, real name John Lydon, is keen to enlist the talents of former 'N Sync star Timberlake to play him in a big-budget movie dramatisation of his controversial life.