After global success, chart-topping albums and massive gigs, there can only be Ed Sheeran the movie - the singer says he wants to make a film of the story of his life that will combine Eminem's 8 Mile and the touchy-feelgood factor of Notting Hill.
Speaking to music magazine Q, he said: "I want to have an 8 Mile moment but 8 Mile meets Notting Hill. Not gritty like Detroit (Eminem's hometown) but, like, Ipswich. I've got loads of songs about Ipswich that haven't come out so I could make a soundtrack."
Ipswich is the English town where Sheeran began his career performing in pubs and the singer says he had meetings with movie executives straight after his recent headlining performance at Glastonbury to discuss a possible biopic.
Sheeran, who has announced he is quitting Twitter because of trolls, has made no secret of his admiration for Eminem, whose life story was told in semi-fictional form in the Oscar-winning 8 Mile in 2002.
He has previously said that rapping along to the rapper's Marshall Mathers LP helped him get rid of his childhood stutter.
Speaking on BBC radio show Desert Island Discs earlier this year, Sheeran said: "My parents didn't know the content of the album, and I must have been nine when it came out."
"And when you're nine and someone is saying rude stuff, you wanna learn it. So, I learned all of the album back-to-back and he raps at such a fast pace that my stammer would go when I rapped."
Sheeran himself has tried his hand at acting before and appeared The Bastard Executioner and will make a small appearance in the upcoming seventh season of Game of Thrones.
Last week, he announced the biggest UK and Ireland tour of his career with gigs in Belfast, Dublin, Cork and Galway in May 2018.
