Flight of the Conchords to “try and do a movie”
As headlines go, it’s not the most bombastic. If anything, it’s a pretty tentative statement from Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords and The Muppets fame: “We’re going to try and do a movie”. Certainly no “The Beatles are bigger than Jesus” now, is it?
On the publicity circuit for The Muppets, currently raking up 5 star reviews all over the shop and for which McKenzie served as musical supervisor, the announcement was made that a Flight of the Conchords movie is in the pipeline “We just need a story.” Quite far back in the pipeline at the moment then…
McKenzie went on to joke “I don’t know how familiar you are with movies, but there’s a lot of behind the scenes stuff that could take one or two weeks. Probably in about a month we’ll have a premiere.”
Since making two cult series of their NY-set musical comedy, McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have made inroads into Hollywood, the former having reprised his much adored blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit films as well as working on The Muppets. Clement has voiced animated roles in Despicable Me and Rio, and can be seen next year in Men in Black III.
Right then, if all they need is a story, surely we can help with that. Feature-length episode of Albi the Racist Dragon anyone?
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On the publicity circuit for The Muppets, currently raking up 5 star reviews all over the shop and for which McKenzie served as musical supervisor, the announcement was made that a Flight of the Conchords movie is in the pipeline “We just need a story.” Quite far back in the pipeline at the moment then…
McKenzie went on to joke “I don’t know how familiar you are with movies, but there’s a lot of behind the scenes stuff that could take one or two weeks. Probably in about a month we’ll have a premiere.”
Since making two cult series of their NY-set musical comedy, McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have made inroads into Hollywood, the former having reprised his much adored blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit films as well as working on The Muppets. Clement has voiced animated roles in Despicable Me and Rio, and can be seen next year in Men in Black III.
Right then, if all they need is a story, surely we can help with that. Feature-length episode of Albi the Racist Dragon anyone?
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