29/06/2011

Production is underway on A Liar’s Autobiography, a 3D animated film based on the eccentric eponymous memoir of the late Monty Python member, Graham Chapman (photo), who died in 1989.

Bill Jones, Ben Timlett and Jeff Simpson of London-based Bill and Ben Productions are producing and directing with US production house Epix Pictures co-producing.

The British comedy group Monty Python has a cult following for their television comedy sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which first aired on BBC in 1969. The series was created, written, and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin, all of who will be part of the film that will also use Chapman’s recordings from 1982. The series spawned the feature films And Now for Something Different (1971), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), and Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983).

Chapman’s book relates the extraordinary and surreal account of his more than eventful life - whether as mountaineer or medical student; actor or alcoholic; heterosexual groupie partaker or homosexual coming to terms with himself.

Terry Jones said, “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.”

Co-director Jeff Simpson said, “We’ve been working closely with the Chapman estate and the Pythons to make sure we get this exactly right. Graham would be delighted that his work is being re-imagined in glorious 3D. He always loved wearing silly glasses.”

Trinity will distribute the film theatrically in the UK.