John Cleese says Fawlty Towers reboot shall be ‘hugely different’
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awlty Towers author John Cleese has mentioned the reboot shall be “hugely different” from the unique.
The Monty Python star instructed GB News there shall be numerous “open-air” scenes which the unique sequence “never got”.
The authentic present, written by Cleese and Connie Booth, ran on BBC Two for 2 sequence in 1975 and 1979.
It adopted the unlucky exploits of highly-strung Torquay hotelier Basil Fawlty, performed by Cleese, and his spouse Sybil, portrayed by Prunella Scales, as they tried to maintain their lodge and marriage afloat.
In 2019 the present was named the best British sitcom of all time by a panel of tv consultants for Radio Times journal.
Cleese mentioned: “It is going to be hugely different. My daughter and I have been working on it for about a week, and all we know is it certainly won’t be set in the UK, it will probably be set somewhere in the sun.
“Not in a big city, but somewhere out in the sun with a lot of open-air stuff which we never got in Fawlty Towers.
“But we’ve only just started to think about it, because I’m also working on the stage version of Life Of Brian, we’re working on a musical of A Fish Called Wanda.
“My daughter and I have written a very good comedy about Hollywood lookalikes and they’re going to be played by the originals, so Arnold Schwarzenegger will play his own lookalike, so there’s plenty going on.”
There’s no try to repeat it, you’ll see one thing utterly completely different
It was confirmed earlier this yr that Cleese and his daughter, Camilla Cleese, could be rebooting the present.
The new sequence will discover how the dramatic and cynical Basil navigates the fashionable world.
It may even see Basil, and a daughter he has simply found is his, group as much as run a boutique lodge.
Actor Rob Reiner, his spouse and actress Michele Reiner, director and producer Matthew George and Derrick Rossi are government producers.
Cleese added: “It’s going to be very different because if it’s in the Caribbean it will be a multicultural cast which will be very interesting. And my daughter Camilla will be playing the woman who’s running the hotel.
“So there will be nothing visually or in terms of characters that anyone’s ever seen before, it will be a brand new attempt.
“There’s no attempt to copy it, you’ll see something completely different. I think it will probably be quite funny. Probably funnier than some of the stuff out there.
“So the fact that it won’t be as good as Fawlty Towers doesn’t bother me, because if we were operating on that principle, I should have done Fawlty Towers and then retired.”