Yahoo’s TheWRAP is reporting that Monty Python alums John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones are pooling their comedic talents for a science-fiction comedy feature, Absolutely Anything.
The film’s producer Mike Medavoy says that Eric Idle is not on board yet, but he “may join the project as well.” Medavoy adds that Cleese, Palin and Gilliam will play alien characters “and possibly several other roles,” and Robin Williams is reportedly “in talks to play a dog and a pompous Frenchman.”
Terry Jones will be directing, and fans may be saddened to hear that this won’t be a Python film. “It’s a different thing,” says Jones. “It’s not really that we’re all getting back together.”