Friday, January 27, 2012
Last remaining Pythons to reunite for film
In what will probably be an overproduced and vain attempt to prove that geezers can be funny, the left over Pythons will be making a new movie.
Members of iconic British comedy group “Monty Python” will re-unite for a new film, a science fiction farce, ex-Python Terry Jones said.So long as they get their prune juice shakes in the morning they should be OK.
“Absolutely Anything” will not be a Python film as such, but key members of the gang, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam, are involved, said Jones, who will direct the movie.
US comic Robin Williams will also lend his voice to the film, which will combine animation and live action, while producers are attempting to sign up the other surviving Python member, Eric Idle, for the project.
“It’s not a Monty Python picture, but it certainly has that sensibility,” Jones told industry daily Variety, adding filming was expected to begin in Britain in the coming months.
The original Python members — who first joined forces on surreal TV series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” — will voice a group of aliens who give an earthling the power to do “absolutely anything” to see what a mess he makes.
Williams will play a talking dog called Dennis, who seems to understand more than anyone else about what happens as a result.
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I've been following the post-Pythons for years, and they're still funny as they ever were. If you "get" British humor, I have no doubt that their new project will be utterly hilarious -- unless, of course, one of the Hollywood studios gets ahold of it and totally defenestrates all the humor in it because the humourless bastards in Hollywood wouldn't understand good humor if it slapped them in the face with a splat of cream.
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