Monty Python Crew To Reunite For Movie

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Monty Python Crew To Reunite For Movie

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 28, 2012 @01:57AM from the this-time-with-feeling dept.

dutchwhizzman writes "The surviving members of Monty Python have announced they will make a new movie. It will be titled Absolutely Anything. Graham Chapman won't be there to join them anymore, but they think the movie will still be in the spirit of Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life and other movies they made in the past."

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They should call it "The Spanish Inquisition"... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-28 02:00 · Score: 5, Funny

... because none of us expected it.
It shouldn't be in the spirit of Life of Brian... by alaffin · 2012-01-28 02:02 · Score: 5, Funny

...it should be something completely different
why no chapman! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-28 02:04 · Score: 4, Funny

...and why is Graham Chapman not joining them?
1. Re:why no chapman! by newcastlejon · 2012-01-28 02:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  ...and why is Graham Chapman not joining them?
  Death can put a real crimp on your acting ability. That is unless your name is Keanu, in which case being stiff as a board is an absolute boon.
  
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2. Re:why no chapman! by Antarius · 2012-01-28 02:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Interviewer: (Michael Palin) An excerpt from Carl French's latest film. Carl, we're all a little mystified by your claim that your new film stars Marilyn Monroe.
  
  Carl French: (Graham Chapman) It does, yes.
  
  Interviewer: Who died over ten years ago?
  
  Carl French: Uh, that's correct.
  
  Interviewer: Are you lying?
  
  Carl French: No, no, it's just that she'e very much in the public eye at the moment.
  
  Interviewer: Does she have a big part?
  
  Carl French: She is the star of the film.
  
  Interviewer: And dead.
  
  Carl French: Well, we dug her up and gave her a screen test, a mere formality in her case, and...
  
  Interviewer: Can she still act?
  
  Carl French: Well... well, she-she's still has this-this enormous, ah-ah, kinda indefinable, uh... no.
  
  Interviewer: Was decomposition a problem?
  
  Carl French: We did have to put her in the fridge between takes.
  
  Interviewer: Ah, what sorts of things does she do in the film?
  
  Carl French: Well, we had her lying on beds, lying on floors, falling out of cupboards, scaring the children...
  
  Interviewer: But surely Miss Monroe was cremated?
  
  Carl French: Well, we had to use a standin for some of the more visible shots.
  
  Interviewer: Ah! Uh, another actress.
  
  Carl French: Dead actress. But Monroe was in shot the whole time.
  
  Interviewer: How?
  
  Carl French: Oh, in the ash tray, in the fire grate and vacuum cleaner...
  
  How appropriate would it be for them to give him Credit like that?!
3. Re:why no chapman! by Whiteox · 2012-01-28 08:19 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  HHGTTG reference me thinks!
  Anyway, just because he's dead doesn't mean he's out of the picture, he's just a naughty boy.
  Every Python movie so far has something to do with philosophy or religion. Maybe this will be different.
  
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Re:like Brian did to the hermit. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-28 02:16 · Score: 2, Funny

This article made me break my vow of lurking!
Pfft. Some vow! It didn't even last an hour.
Resurrect Chapman by Sponge+Bath · 2012-01-28 02:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Instead of Robin Williams as a talking dog (ugh), splice together Chapman's voice from all his films and Monty Python episodes (like South Park and Chef) for that role. Then sprinkle photos of Chapman in his various outlandish outfits throughout the movie without making a direct reference to them.
I can dream. Feverish dreams.
Re:No Eric Idle? by maxwell+demon · 2012-01-28 02:47 · Score: 2, Funny

Well, Slashdot has an Idle section, isn't that enough?

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Re:They should call it "The Spanish Inquisition".. by CdXiminez · 2012-01-28 03:20 · Score: 3, Funny

... because none of us expected it.
Except when you are, like me, Cardinal Ximinez.