Any Monty Python news is good news in my book. The fact they could be getting the band back together for a film is excellent news. The film in question is Absolutely Anything a sci-fi farce combining CGI and live action, with Terry Jones to direct and Mike Medavoy to produce according to Variety.
Plans are for filming to begin in the U.K. this spring, with the Pythons voicing key roles as a a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do “absolutely anything” to see what a mess he’ll make of things — which is precisely what happens. There’s also a talking dog named Dennis who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else does. Robin Williams will voice the character.
“It’s not a Monty Python picture, but it certainly has that sensibility,” Jones told Variety.
The five surviving members of Monty Python last appeared together in 1998 at the Aspen Comedy Festival along with an urn that allegedly contained the ashes of late member Graham Chapman.
“Terry and Gavin have crafted a classic farce — something I feel I know a little bit about after all the ‘Pink Panther’ pictures we did with Blake Edwards at United Artists,” Medavoy said. “In fact, the movie even has a pompous Frenchman reminiscent of Inspector Clouseau — but there the similarity ends. Like all projects originated by any of the Monty Python guys, ‘Absolutely Anything’ delightfully defies a logline.”
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin are up for it and they are just waiting for Eric Idle to confirm.
All in all it sounds like it will be a delightful mess. Can’t wait.
