10/29/2014

First Look at Simon Pegg in Terry Jones' 'Absolutely Anything'


There's going to be a Monty Python reunion next summer, although probably not in the way their rabid fans would want. Terry Jones  is directing the sci-fi comedy, Absolutely Anything, which has him and his Python colleagues John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Michael Palin voicing a bunch of space aliens. The film stars Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale, and Empire have just revealed the first images of Pegg, who plays a regular guy with limitless power.

The story centers on Neil Clarke (Pegg), a secondary schoolteacher who can do literally do anything. Here's how Jones describes it: “He can make anything happen [but] he doesn’t realize it until his colleague says, ‘What would you do if you could do anything?’ and Neil responds with, ‘I’d make an alien spaceship hit class 4C and vaporize them.’ Then there’s an explosion in the school, and they run to 4C’s classroom, open the door and there’s a vast hole in the ground.”

Sounds weird and twisted and potentially hilarious, especially with Pegg in the lead role. The film includes the final performance by Robin Williams, who voices Neil's dog. Absolutely Anything opens in 2015.