Chris Morris returns to… film?
Satirical genius, Chris Morris has been developing a comedy about Islamic terrorists, centring on a group of would-be suicide bombers from the North of England. Morris has said of the project that he wanted to do for Islamic terrorism what Dad’s Army did for the Nazis by showing them as ‘scary but also ridiculous’. And not a moment too soon.
However, both the BBC and Channel 4 have rejected the comedy as being too controversial for TV.
The good news, however, is that Film4 is putting up the money to develop the project as a film.
A Channel 4 spokeswoman told trade magazine Broadcast: ‘Channel 4 has a long history of working with Chris Morris, and a significant funding contribution towards his latest project is being made.
‘It was agreed at a very early stage that the project would work best as a film and from this point was developed through Film4.’
There is no title, script or release date as yet. But if this does go all the way into production then we can all look forward to Morris’ big screen début.
Sunday 28 Sep 2008 | Paul | New and Upcoming Films, People, TV
