If there’s anything I love, it’s some British 80s horror/sci-fi comedy and nothing else in the history of film has ever felt like one in particular… Time Bandits.
The Terry Gilliam-directed movie follows the time-traveling adventures of an 11-year-old history buff named Kevin who, one night, stumbles on six dwarfs who emerge from his closet. They are former workers of the Supreme Being who have stolen a map that charts all the holes in the space-time fabric, using it to hop from one historical era to the next in order to steal riches.
It’s every bit as crazy and wonderful as it sounds and it stars legends such as David Warner, Sean Connery, John Cleese and many more is roles that, frankly, make no sense.
Now the movie has been picked up as a TV series by Apple and the pilot will be co-written and directed by Thor: Ragnarok and What We Do In The Shadows Taika Waititi.
I doubt very much that the series will capture the pure madness of the 1981 movie but Waititi can certainly do weird humour and sci-fi, so it has potential to be good… just how good? Well, that remains to be seen.
What say you all?
Source: Deadline
Nerd Comments