In March 2005, news of the film suggested that it would be scripted by Simon McBurney, but in December 2005, Atkinson said that the script was actually being written by himself and his longtime collaborator and "Mr. Bean" co-creator Richard Curtis. The screenplay was later confirmed to have been instead written by Robin Driscoll (also a writer on the TV series) and Hamish McColl while the story was instead penned by McBurney, who also served as one of the executive producers on the film alongside Curtis.