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The Movies are Set to be Absolutely Fabulous in 2015
After an arduous 20 years of procrastination and consternation, comedian Jennifer Saunders has finally completed the first draft for the Absolutely Fabulous movie.
Having properly knuckled down over the past 12 months thanks to the help of a hypnotherapist to “get rid of the backpack of negativity”, Saunders wishes to see it completed by the end of the year.
The film, titled Eddie and Patsy after the two party-hard, old enough to know better, too old to care main characters, is an ambitious project to say the least. Aside from Saunders and Joanna Lumley as the eponymous pair, Julia Sawalha as Edina’s long-suffering daughter Sapphie and June Whitfield as the bizarrely straight-laced and yet completely out of it mother, the aim is to bring in everyone who had a part. This would include the likes of Jane Horrocks, Helena Bonham Carter, Suzi Quatro, Ruby Wax and Jean-Paul Gaultier, amongst others.
Having sporadically been resurrected since its original end in 1996 and subsequent one in 2004, doubt has been greatly cast on whether the film will ever emerge. Good friend and collaborator Dawn French said in a radio show that she bet Saunders £100,000 she wouldn’t write it, and so the pressure could be felt.
How successful the movie will be only time will tell, if and when it does emerge. But if the specials are anything to go by, it’s reasonable to expect great things from Saunders’ pen.
