Working Title Presents The Goodies Movie
Today I thought of the worst possible cinematic travesty imaginable...
Imagine... A small office in Cricklewood, London, with three consultants wondering when they'll be getting their next gig. Tim has taken it apon himself to "virally market" their services which basically involves paying minicab drivers to tout their service picking up passengers from Heathrow or wherever.
They get a call. What starts out as a simple enough assignment to find out why packets of tea are disappearing off the shelves at the local supermarket soon finds them sticking their noses into a massive scheme masterminded by charismatic business tycoon Wayne Bruce to summon a giant psychic squid into the middle of London for some unknown reason. Mr Bruce would be played by Hugh Jackman. (Hell, might as well get an Australian into it, they're probably the only country that still remembers the Goodies...)
Along the way they get into all sorts of scrapes involving Beefeaters, giant kittens and rabbits, rock festivals (where "Bill" gets to do a star turn singing Funky Gibbon and/or Run as reimagined by Franz Ferdinand) megalomaniac monks, reality TV shows, civil wars in South America, other random horribleness, and of course the superblimp powered by the trandem which is their means of discovering Bruce's headquarters.
Obviously, we have to have some serious star power to get people interested, since the original Goodies are getting on a tad. Bill Oddie gets played by Russell Brand. Graeme Garden gets played by Ioan Gruffudd, and Tim Brooke-Taylor gets played by
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wait for it...
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wait for it!
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Billie Piper.
Because frankly this has to has something for the girls, and like Monty Python and even the New Wave of British Comedy, it was a bit of a sausage fest.
Anyway Ms Piper would look hot in a Union Jack vest.
You know it makes sense.
Imagine... A small office in Cricklewood, London, with three consultants wondering when they'll be getting their next gig. Tim has taken it apon himself to "virally market" their services which basically involves paying minicab drivers to tout their service picking up passengers from Heathrow or wherever.
They get a call. What starts out as a simple enough assignment to find out why packets of tea are disappearing off the shelves at the local supermarket soon finds them sticking their noses into a massive scheme masterminded by charismatic business tycoon Wayne Bruce to summon a giant psychic squid into the middle of London for some unknown reason. Mr Bruce would be played by Hugh Jackman. (Hell, might as well get an Australian into it, they're probably the only country that still remembers the Goodies...)
Along the way they get into all sorts of scrapes involving Beefeaters, giant kittens and rabbits, rock festivals (where "Bill" gets to do a star turn singing Funky Gibbon and/or Run as reimagined by Franz Ferdinand) megalomaniac monks, reality TV shows, civil wars in South America, other random horribleness, and of course the superblimp powered by the trandem which is their means of discovering Bruce's headquarters.
Obviously, we have to have some serious star power to get people interested, since the original Goodies are getting on a tad. Bill Oddie gets played by Russell Brand. Graeme Garden gets played by Ioan Gruffudd, and Tim Brooke-Taylor gets played by
...
...
...
wait for it...
...
...
wait for it!
...
Billie Piper.
Because frankly this has to has something for the girls, and like Monty Python and even the New Wave of British Comedy, it was a bit of a sausage fest.
Anyway Ms Piper would look hot in a Union Jack vest.
You know it makes sense.