Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
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| Directed by | Mandie Fletcher |
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| Written by | Jennifer Saunders |
| Based on | Absolutely Fabulous by Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French |
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| Music by | Charlie Mole |
| Cinematography | Chris Goodger |
| Edited by | Anthony Boys Gavin Buckley |
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| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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| Language | English |
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is an upcoming 2016 British comedy film directed by Mandie Fletcher and written by Jennifer Saunders, based on the television show Absolutely Fabulous. The film stars Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, and Jane Horrocks. Principal photography began on 12 October 2015 in the south of France. The film will be released in the UK on 1 July 2016.[1]
Contents
Premise
The ever glamorous and self-indulgent Patsy and Edina find themselves at the centre of a media firestorm when they accidentally kill Kate Moss.
Cast
Main cast
- Jennifer Saunders as Edina "Eddy" Monsoon[2]
- Joanna Lumley as Patsy Stone[2]
- Julia Sawalha as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon[2]
- June Whitfield as Mother[2]
- Jane Horrocks as Bubble[2]
- Kathy Burke as Magda[3]
- Celia Imrie as Claudia Bing[4]
- Janette Tough as Huki Muki[4]
Celebrity cameos
Multiple celebrity cameo appearances in the film were announced over the course of filming.[2][5][6][7][8][9][10] In April 2016, Fox and the BBC confirmed a list of 60 cameos, most of which had not yet been announced, that would be featured in the film.[11][12] They include:
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- Kate Moss as herself[2]
- Emma Bunton as herself[2][12]
- Lulu[2]
- Harry Styles[2]
- Kim Kardashian[2][5]
- Chris Colfer[5]
- Joan Collins[5][6][11]
- Lily Cole[4][12]
- Rylan Clark as Ryan[7]
- Rebel Wilson as a Flight attendant[8][11]
- Jean Paul Gaultier[9][11]
- Cara Delevingne[10]
- Jon Hamm[11][12]
- Stella McCartney as herself[11][12]
- Gwendoline Christie[11][12]
- Dawn French[11]
- Richard Arnold[11]
- Christopher Biggins[11]
- Ozwald Boateng[11]
- Judith Chalmers[11]
- Alexa Chung[11]
- Abbey Clancy[11]
- Giles Deacon[11]
- Poppy Delevingne[11]
- Alice Dellal[11]
- Alesha Dixon[11]
- Jourdan Dunn[11]
- Beattie Edmondson[11]
- Ella Eyre[11]
- Foxes[11]
- Sadie Frost[11]
- Mark Gatiss[11]
- Nick Grimshaw[11]
- Orla Guerin[11]
- Jerry Hall[4][11]
- Jodie Harsh[11]
- Perez Hilton[11]
- Anya Hindmarch[11]
- Pam Hogg[11]
- Kelly Hoppen[11]
- Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries)[11]
- Alex Jones[11]
- La Roux[11]
- Jamie Laing[11]
- Kathy Lette[11]
- Daisy Lowe[11]
- Suzy Menkes[11]
- Nick Mohammed[11]
- Graham Norton[11]
- Miquita Oliver[11]
- Jade Parfitt[11]
- Jeremy Paxman[11]
- Sophie Raworth[11]
- Camilla Rutherford[11]
- Brix Smith[11]
- Lara Stone[11]
- Tinie Tempah[11]
- Bruno Tonioli[11]
- Wanda Ventham[11]
- Suki Waterhouse[11]
- Kirsty Wark[11]
- Marcia Warren[11]
- Robert Webb[11]
About 90 drag queens will also appear in the film, including Daniel Lismore, The Infamous BoomBoom, La Voix, Chrissy Darling, Charlie Hides, A Man To Pet and Jonbenet Blonde.[citation needed]
Development and production
Saunders wrote and starred in Absolutely Fabulous, a British television sitcom for the BBC which originally ran for three series from 1992 to 1995, with intermittent additional series and specials through 2012.[13][14] Absolutely Fabulous features the champagne-fueled duo of "international PR guru" Edina Monsoon (Saunders) and "sex-crazed magazine editor" Patsy Stone (Lumley).[13] Additional characters include Edina's overly serious daughter Saffron (Sawalha), her daffy mother (Whitfield) and her even daffier assistant Bubble (Horrocks).[15]
Writing
Deadline.com broke the story in November 2011 that Saunders planned to begin writing a film version of the series in 2012.[13] The movie would begin with Edina and Patsy waking up hungover after a party on an oligarch's yacht, with everyone else gone and the boat somewhere the middle of the ocean.[13][16] Saunders later said that she hoped to shoot the film on the French Riviera.[17] In March 2012, Saunders confirmed that she was working on the script.[18] She said of the plot:
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Eddy and Patsy are looking for what they imagine glamorous life should be. They're constantly searching for that perfect place to sit or that perfect pair of sunglasses. It's Shangri-La and it just might be round the next corner. In the meantime, they decide to take Saffy's daughter off her—she calls her Jane, I call her Lola—but then they lose her.[18]
Calling herself the "worst procrastinator in the world",[19] Saunders said in January 2014:
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Yes, well I have to do it now because I've threatened to a lot ... And then she [Lumley] kept announcing it and saying, "Yes, she's going to do it," and then Dawn French on our radio show at Christmas said, "I bet £100,000 that you don't write it," so now I have to write it, otherwise I have to pay her £100,000 ... Once you've had a bit of success, the last thing you want to do is go and make a flop. So the biggest fear in me is that it won't be good enough. I'm really nervous about it.[19]
In April 2014, Saunders again confirmed on BBC Breakfast that she was in the process of writing the film.[20] In April 2015, Saunders explained her delay with the script, saying "I think that's why I didn't do it for a while ... I thought, 'Wouldn't it be awful if it was awful.'"[21] She then quipped, "but we're all so old, and Joanna [Lumley] said to me, 'Do it before we die!' We're all on the brink."[21] Saunders also noted, "[The film] involves all the main characters and virtually everyone that's ever been in the series—all those characters".[21] Lumley confirmed in July 2015 that the film's script was finished and that production would begin in October.[22] She said of the project, "We are all there, the same old gang ... It is going to be ravishingly funny! Very gorgeous ... and completely fabulous!"[22]
Production and filming
In August 2015, Deadline.com reported that "all of the original main cast" were confirmed, with Fox Searchlight Pictures in negotiations to co-finance and co-produce the film with BBC Films, and to handle worldwide distribution.[23] It was also announced that Mandie Fletcher would direct, with Jon Plowman and Damian Jones as producers and Saunders, French and Maureen Vincent as executive producers.[23] Deadline.com later reported that Christine Langan, Steve Milne, Christian Eisenbeiss and Nichola Martin were also executive producing, with DanTram Nguyen, Vice President of Production and Katie Goodson-Thomas, Director of Production overseeing the project for Fox .[24]
Principal photography on the film began on 12 October 2015 in south of France.[23][25] The BBC and Fox Searchlight subsequently released a promotional image of Saunders and Lumley in character on a yacht.[24] Along with Sawalha, Whitfield and Horrocks,[2] Kathy Burke was confirmed to be reprising her role as Magda,[3] and Kate Moss, Emma Bunton and Lulu would appear in guest roles as themselves, as they had in the TV series.[2] The cameo appearances of Harry Styles, Kelly Hoppen and Kim Kardashian were also announced as filming began.[2] Multiple other celebrity cameos were announced during production,[2][5][6][7][8][9][10] culminating with a 60-name list released in April 2016.[11][12]
Deadline.com's Ali Jaafar wrote of the film's plot in October 2015:
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Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forevermore![24]
Controversy
In December 2015, the film sparked controversy and accusations of racism when it was announced that Caucasian comedian Janette Tough would be playing a Japanese character named Huki Muki.[26][27] Korean American comedian Margaret Cho accused Ab Fab: The Movie of “yellowface”, which she described as "when white people portray Asian people. And unfortunately it’s happening in this film."[26]
Release
The film will be released in the UK on 1 July 2016,[1] and in the US on 22 July 2016.[28]
References
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