Absolutely Anything
Absolutely Anything is a 2015 British science fiction comedy film and directed by Terry Jones and written by Terry Jones and Gavin Scott. The film stars Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rob Riggle, Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, with the voices of Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Eric Idle and Robin Williams in his final film role. It was the first film to feature all living Monty Python members since 1983s Monty Pythons The Meaning of Life. Principal photography and production began onMarch 2014, and ended onMay 2014. The film was released in the United Kingdom onAugust 2015 by Lionsgate UK. The film grossed 3.8 million worldwide.
In a March 2014 interview with Empire, Terry Jones spoke about the plot of the film. He described it as being about Neil, a teacher in a failing secondary school, who is given the ability to make anything happen by asking it to. He only realizes he has this after saying Id make an alien spaceship hit class 10C and vaporize them to a colleague, only to hear an explosion elsewhere in the school and find 10Cs classroom destroyed.Jones credited the films idea to the H. G. Wells story The Man Who Could Work Miracles, but said that it just changed out of all recognition from that. He also explained that the script for the film has been around foryears, saying I just think its my own baby really. But I wrote it with Gavin Scott, and weve been writing it foryears, then Mike Medavoy rang up in 2010 or so and asked what scripts I had hidden in my bottom desk drawer. So I pulled out Absolutely Everything not literally, of course and here we are. He also spoke about the character Dennis the Dog, saying I think hes going to steal the show. Weve got a real dog, Mojo, who is very obedient, and a wonderful dog, a mongrel, but CGI work will be done. Simon Pegg is a big dog fan, and him and Mojo get on very well. Before Douglas Adams died, he looked over the script and he said that Dennis the Dogs scenes were the funniest scenes... He also spoke about the designs of the alien characters, saying James Acheson is doing the costumes, and he has already got a wonderful array of aliens of different sizes and shapes. The story behind the aliens is they intercept the Voyager space craft as it leaves the solar system and comes into intergalactic space well, it isnt really intergalactic space, but we pretend it is, anyway and they say they have to assess one Earthling at random by giving them these powers. They pick Neil. ........
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