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01-27-2012, 03:06 AM
sauce (http://movies.yahoo.com/news/monty-python-stars-reuniting-absolutely-anything-210743599.html)
There may be a little more life in Brian, after all.
Monty Python-ers John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones are reuniting for the science-fiction comedy “Absolutely Anything,” TheWrap has confirmed.
Eric Idle, the other surviving member of the Flying Circus, may join the project, as well, producer Mike Medavoy told TheWrap.
Graham Chapman, the other member of the troupe, died in 1989.
Jones will direct the film, with Cleese, Palin and Gilliam playing aliens and possibly several other additional roles, in true Python tradition.
In addition, Robin Williams is in talks to play a dog and a pompous Frenchman, Medavoy said.
But those expecting a follow-up to “The Holy Grail," be warned.
“It's not a Python film,” Jones told TheWrap. “It's a different thing. It's not really that we're all getting back together.”
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this is probably the best news I've heard today
There may be a little more life in Brian, after all.
Monty Python-ers John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones are reuniting for the science-fiction comedy “Absolutely Anything,” TheWrap has confirmed.
Eric Idle, the other surviving member of the Flying Circus, may join the project, as well, producer Mike Medavoy told TheWrap.
Graham Chapman, the other member of the troupe, died in 1989.
Jones will direct the film, with Cleese, Palin and Gilliam playing aliens and possibly several other additional roles, in true Python tradition.
In addition, Robin Williams is in talks to play a dog and a pompous Frenchman, Medavoy said.
But those expecting a follow-up to “The Holy Grail," be warned.
“It's not a Python film,” Jones told TheWrap. “It's a different thing. It's not really that we're all getting back together.”
(article continues)
this is probably the best news I've heard today