Monty Python Reunion of the Day: Monty Python’s Terry Jones has confirmed that the surviving members of the group are planning to reunite for a sci-fi movie called Absolutely Anything, with Jones set to direct.
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin are on board for the project, which is based on a 20-year-old script written by Jones, and they also hope to recruit Eric Idle.
“It’s not a Monty Python picture,” Jones said, “But it certainly has that sensibility.”
It also has Robin Williams as a talking dog named Dennis, so it looks like the Python boys’ surrealist humor remains firmly intact.
“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,” said producer Michael Medavoy, who also produced Python’s Life of Brian.
“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.”
The surviving troupe members haven’t appeared together since 1998, although they did collaborate last year — sans Idle — on the Graham Chapman biopic A Liar’s Autobiography.
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