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    Monty Python reunites for animated Graham Chapman biography

    By Ryan Fleming | Digital Trends – Tue, Jul 5, 2011

    Despite the slightly inconvenient fact that Graham Chapman has been dead for more than 20 years, he and four of the five remaining members of Monty Python will reunite for a 3D animated film based on Chapman’s recorded memoirs, A Liar’s Autobiography: Volume VI.

    According to DigitalSpy, the film will feature 15 animated segments, and include Cleese, Gilliam, Jones and Palin lending their voices to different people from Chapman’s life. The material is taken from unreleased home recordings made shortly before Chapman became the ex-Graham Chapman in 1989. Which makes sense, as the recordings would likely be far less entertaining if he had recorded them after his death.

    Although the picture will discuss Chapman’s time as a Python, the movie will be based on his life in total. Gilliam will play Chapman’s mother, while Palin will play his father. The other roles will be split amongst all four Pythons.

    “I had no idea until recently that Graham Chapman is in fact dead – I thought he was just being lazy. However, I am now delighted to find myself working with him again on this exciting project,” Jones wrote in a statement.

    No word on why Eric Idle is not part of the project. Idle recently appeared with fellow Python John Cleese in Shrek the Third.

    The film is due out in theaters next year.

     

    13 comments

    • Jim M
      Jim M  •  10 mths ago
      I so enjoyed reading this article while eating my usual breakfast of spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs, and spam.
      • Jennifer
        Jennifer 10 mths ago
        But I don't like spam!
      • Jim M
        Jim M 10 mths ago
        Then you should select our eggs, spam, ham, spam, bacon, and spam breakfast.
    • Jim M
      Jim M  •  10 mths ago
      "A Liar's Autobiography?" Will the movie script be true to the book? If so, does that make it also a lie? Or if the script deliberately deviates from the book, will it then be true?
      Someone should make a skit out of this conundrum. Or is it an enigma? Or is it an enigmatic conundrum? Yes, that's the ticket. Or maybe not.
      Now for something completely different.
      • Sherey
        Sherey 10 mths ago
        my brain hurts
    • Okierazorbacker
      Okierazorbacker  •  10 mths ago
      I love it! To you who aren't thoroughly familiar with Python: The writer chose exactly the right tone for this article; lighthearted, thoroughly irreverent, and in horrible taste. Click "more" for an extreme example, as this whole project reminds me of a Python sketch about a young man who brings his mother's body to an undertaker who suggests that she looks good enough to eat. They could of course bury her, in which case the worms would eat her, or they could just eat her themselves and save the bother. If the son feels bad about it later, they could dig a hole and throw up in it. Naturally it looks horrible on paper but is done with such normalcy that its very grotesqueness makes it riotously hilarious. Gotta love these guys.
      • MFox
        MFox 10 mths ago
        Very well said. Saw that sketch, it is hysterical.
      • Jim M
        Jim M 10 mths ago
        Obviously more grotesque than their hilarious "dead parrot" skit. I think it was John Cleese who later said that they first tried it with a dead dog but the audience did not find it funny. at all.
      • mammastheboss
        mammastheboss 10 mths ago
        Python humor...I still love it!
    • Merideth Booth
      Merideth Booth  •  10 mths ago
      This article is the best thing since sliced grape jelly...
    • Anthony Edwards
      Anthony Edwards  •  10 mths ago
      A Monty Python is a naked snake. British slang. Gotta love it.
    • tx79407
      tx79407  •  10 mths ago
      Answer me these questions 3...err the other side ye seek....what is your name ? Monty Python.. what is your quest ? To seek The Grail....what is your favorite colour ? Green....as in cash.....Oh what a silly place...Amen
    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 mths ago
      This Michael Palin fellow is obviously making an attempt to cash in on the starpower of our former Alaskan governor. These Brits have no shame.
      • Jim M
        Jim M 10 mths ago
        And the proof of your assertion will be shown when they all quit the movie half-way through.
    • Good Morning Toledo!
      Good Morning Toledo!  •  10 mths ago
      Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three!
    • Thomas
      Thomas  •  10 mths ago
      Ah yes, here's hoping it's not for need of money, that the remaining pythos do this deed. If so, I'm sure the rest of us will suffer badly for it. And if Mr. Jones wasn't aware of Chapman's demise, surely the smell would've been a dead giveaway?
    • MFox
      MFox  •  10 mths ago
      OH, I want to see this. Love Python...
    • Tina
      Tina  •  10 mths ago
      Rest in peace Mr. Chapman.

      Good to hear the troupe will do him this honor.
    • Flareside
      Flareside  •  10 mths ago
      To the extent the writer was trying to be funny while writing this article all I can comment is "don't quit your day job". (Unless this is your day job, then please do.)
    • GAZZA.T.TOMPKINSON
      GAZZA.T.TOMPKINSON  •  10 mths ago
      What is a monty python?
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