Shut Up And Take My Money: Monty Python and Robin Williams Are Making Sci-Fi

Absolutely Anything, based on a script that Terry Jones has been developing with Gavin Scott for two decades, may actually see production this spring. It tells the story of a few aliens and one human and, according to Variety, all those aliens are going to be voiced by the remaining living members of Monty Python, in a group venture the likes of which hasn’t been seen since 1998.

Also Robin Williams.

Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, and Michael Palin are reportedly on board, with the movie’s producers in talks with Eric Idle. Robin Williams will be voicing an earthling given the power to do “absolutely anything.” From Variety:

[Producer Mike] Medavoy, whose recent producing credits are for “Black Swan” and the upcoming “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” noted that he’s had plenty of experience with films like “Absolutely Anything” dating back to the 1970s, when he headed production at United Artists.

“Terry and Gavin 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,” Medavoy said. “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.”

There will also be a talking dog, so this sounds at least as silly as the Science Fiction Sketch, in which case we’re all for it:

(via Blastr.)