Monty Python Will Do ‘Absolutely Anything’

The surviving members of Monty Python are set to reform for a new movie. Unfortunately it isn’t a new Python movie (I think those days are gone). It is instead a sci-fi farce which will be a combination of live-action and CG animation. Like, erm, Garfield and Alvin and the Chipmunks then. Oh dear.

The film is titled Absolutely Anything, and tells the tale of a group of aliens (voiced by the Python team) who endow a human with incredible powers in order to see what happens. It doesn’t go well.

Producer Mike Medavoy, who has previously worked with the Python team on the classic Life of Brian, said:

“Terry [Jones] and Gavin [Scott] 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. 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.”

Terry Jones, Michael Palin, John Cleese, and Terry Gilliam have all signed on to appear, with Eric Idle being the only holdout. The last time these five guys appeared together was in 1998 for the Aspen Comedy Festival.