PYTHONS REUNITE FOR "ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING"
EXCLUSIVE: Members of Monty Python's Flying Circus are reteaming for ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING, a sci-fi farce combining CGI and live action, Variety's Dave McNary reports. 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 played by Robin Williams named Dennis who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else. "It's not a Monty Python picture, but it certainly has that sensibility," Director Terry Jones told Variety. Jones co-directed 1974's MONTY AND THE HOLY GRAIL with Terry Gilliam and was the sole director on LIFE OF BRIAN and MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE. He said Gilliam and Python members John Cleese and Michael Palin have agreed to perform and added that producers are attempting to sign Eric Idle. The five surviving troupe members last appeared together in 1998 at the Aspen Comedy Festival along with an urn that allegedly contained the ashes of late member Graham Chapman.
