Post by pledm on May 13, 2009 12:04:46 GMT -5
Just a fan of the mighty Python 
According to recent reports, Cleese is currently working on a musical version of A Fish Called Wanda with his daughter Camilla. He also said that he is working - for the first time since 1996's Fierce Creatures - on a new film screenplay. Cleese collaborates on it with writer Lisa Hogan, under the current working title "Taxing Times". According to him, it is "about the lengths to which people will go to avoid tax. [...] It's based on what happened to me when I cashed in my UK pension and moved to Santa Barbara."
At the end of March 2009, Cleese published his first article as 'Contributing Editor' to The Spectator: The real reason I had to join The Spectator.
On 6 May 2009, he appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show.
According to IMDB, Crood Awakening, which he wrote will be released in 2011. It is "set in the prehistoric era, a man's position as Leader of the Hunt is threatened by the arrival of a prehistoric genius who comes up with revolutionary new inventions ... like fire."
Terry Jones
Since January 2009, he has provided narration for The Legend of dick and Dom for CBBC: a fantasy series set in the middle ages.
News reports in the British media on 27 April 2009, claimed that Jones was due to become a father for the third time in the autumn of 2009, by way of his girlfriend of five years, Anna Soderstrom.
Eric Idle
In recent years, Idle has worked with people who regard him as a huge inspiration, such as Trey Parker and Matt Stone in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, in which he voiced Dr. Vosknocker. He has also made three appearances on The Simpsons as famous documentarian Declan Desmond, so far the only appearance on the show by a Python.
He has more recently provided the voice of Merlin the magician in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek the Third (2007) with his former Python co-star John Cleese, who voiced King Harold. He reportedly stormed out of its premiere and said he may sue the producers of the film after seeing them directly copy a gag from his earlier film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The gag in question is banging coconuts together to imitate hoofbeats - a running gag throughout the film.
According to IMDB, he will be the voice of Merlin in Shrek Goes Fourth, released in 2010.
Michael Palin
In 2008, he received the James Joyce Award of the Literary and Historical Society in Dublin
In November 2008, Palin presented a First World War documentary about Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, when thousands of soldiers lost their lives in battle after the war had officially ended. Palin filmed on the battlefields of northern France and Belgium for the programme, called The Last Day of the World War One, produced for the BBC's Timewatch series.
In 2008 Palin reportedly entered talks with Terry Gilliam to step in for Jean Rochefort and play Don Quixote alongside Johnny Depp in the relaunched production of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Main production start is planned for 2009.
Terry Gilliam
After regaining the rights to the screenplay of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Gilliam restarted pre-production in 2008, with Johnny Depp still attached to the project.[28] The film will be reshot completely, and Rochefort's role will be recast. Michael Palin reportedly entered talks with Gilliam to step in for Rochefort and play Don Quixote. Main production start is planned for 2009.
On January 24, 2009, it was announced that Gilliam would direct a project entitled Zero Theorem, produced by Richard D. Zanuck, and set to star Billy Bob Thornton. With a screenplay by Pat Rushin, the film is about a reclusive computer genius who is working on a project which deals with the absurdity of the meaning of life. Filming is set to start on May 1, 2009.
Graham Chapman
Chapman died of a rare spinal cancer, which was diagnosed in November 1988 after his dentist found a growth on his tonsils. By September 1989 the cancer was declared incurable. He filmed scenes for the 20th anniversary of Monty Python that month, but was taken ill again on 1 October. Present when he died in a Maidstone Hospice on the evening of 4 October 1989 were John Cleese, Michael Palin, David Sherlock, his brother John, and John's wife, although Cleese had to be led out of the room to deal with his grief.
Terry Jones and Peter Cook had visited earlier that day. His death occurred one day before the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Flying Circus; Jones called it “the worst case of party-pooping in all history."
According to recent reports, Cleese is currently working on a musical version of A Fish Called Wanda with his daughter Camilla. He also said that he is working - for the first time since 1996's Fierce Creatures - on a new film screenplay. Cleese collaborates on it with writer Lisa Hogan, under the current working title "Taxing Times". According to him, it is "about the lengths to which people will go to avoid tax. [...] It's based on what happened to me when I cashed in my UK pension and moved to Santa Barbara."
At the end of March 2009, Cleese published his first article as 'Contributing Editor' to The Spectator: The real reason I had to join The Spectator.
On 6 May 2009, he appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show.
According to IMDB, Crood Awakening, which he wrote will be released in 2011. It is "set in the prehistoric era, a man's position as Leader of the Hunt is threatened by the arrival of a prehistoric genius who comes up with revolutionary new inventions ... like fire."
Terry Jones
Since January 2009, he has provided narration for The Legend of dick and Dom for CBBC: a fantasy series set in the middle ages.
News reports in the British media on 27 April 2009, claimed that Jones was due to become a father for the third time in the autumn of 2009, by way of his girlfriend of five years, Anna Soderstrom.
Eric Idle
In recent years, Idle has worked with people who regard him as a huge inspiration, such as Trey Parker and Matt Stone in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, in which he voiced Dr. Vosknocker. He has also made three appearances on The Simpsons as famous documentarian Declan Desmond, so far the only appearance on the show by a Python.
He has more recently provided the voice of Merlin the magician in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek the Third (2007) with his former Python co-star John Cleese, who voiced King Harold. He reportedly stormed out of its premiere and said he may sue the producers of the film after seeing them directly copy a gag from his earlier film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The gag in question is banging coconuts together to imitate hoofbeats - a running gag throughout the film.
According to IMDB, he will be the voice of Merlin in Shrek Goes Fourth, released in 2010.
Michael Palin
In 2008, he received the James Joyce Award of the Literary and Historical Society in Dublin
In November 2008, Palin presented a First World War documentary about Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, when thousands of soldiers lost their lives in battle after the war had officially ended. Palin filmed on the battlefields of northern France and Belgium for the programme, called The Last Day of the World War One, produced for the BBC's Timewatch series.
In 2008 Palin reportedly entered talks with Terry Gilliam to step in for Jean Rochefort and play Don Quixote alongside Johnny Depp in the relaunched production of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Main production start is planned for 2009.
Terry Gilliam
After regaining the rights to the screenplay of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Gilliam restarted pre-production in 2008, with Johnny Depp still attached to the project.[28] The film will be reshot completely, and Rochefort's role will be recast. Michael Palin reportedly entered talks with Gilliam to step in for Rochefort and play Don Quixote. Main production start is planned for 2009.
On January 24, 2009, it was announced that Gilliam would direct a project entitled Zero Theorem, produced by Richard D. Zanuck, and set to star Billy Bob Thornton. With a screenplay by Pat Rushin, the film is about a reclusive computer genius who is working on a project which deals with the absurdity of the meaning of life. Filming is set to start on May 1, 2009.
Graham Chapman
Chapman died of a rare spinal cancer, which was diagnosed in November 1988 after his dentist found a growth on his tonsils. By September 1989 the cancer was declared incurable. He filmed scenes for the 20th anniversary of Monty Python that month, but was taken ill again on 1 October. Present when he died in a Maidstone Hospice on the evening of 4 October 1989 were John Cleese, Michael Palin, David Sherlock, his brother John, and John's wife, although Cleese had to be led out of the room to deal with his grief.
Terry Jones and Peter Cook had visited earlier that day. His death occurred one day before the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Flying Circus; Jones called it “the worst case of party-pooping in all history."