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Many serious movie sites have picked up on what actor Stephen Fry had to say about the TV show Blackadder in a webchat we had here on June 14 ( http://www.douglasadams.se/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9448 )

Stephen said:

Sites like www.darkhorizons.com, www.vergin.net and www.contactmusic.com picked up on this story and headlined their frontpages with things like "Blackadder movie on the way" and "Atkinson Developing Black Adder Film".

Now, only an idiot or an extreme optimist would interperate what Stephen said as "we are shooting the film as we speak, and it should be out next week". Nobody, as we speak, is making a Blackadder movie. There are possibly ideas for one, but from there to shooting is from here to the moon.

And when serious sites like those mentioned above quote from live webchats without linking to those chats, then you know that they are building castles in the air.

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Still, if they're running with it I guess it's best they don't link back home. I mean, do we really want folks thinking we think there's going to be a movie or a TV special?

Me thinks we should suggest to Terry Jones that he make some wild ass speculation about a future Python project featuring unearthed footage of Graham Chapman and Shempy McWaggle, the lost Python member.

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

Already done!

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The future is wide open ...






I think I know my question for Terry ...

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What buggers me senseless is that these people are trying to convey the message that the movie is being shot right now, inspite the fact that if you read what Stephen Fry actually writes, there is no possible way to misunderstand. What he says is that we all meet up every once in a while and have a nice chum chat. From there, these commercial areseholes are trying to make news of a new movie out later this year. Lying and intriguing, is what it all is.

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Welcome to the new-age News broadcasting, Dukey.

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Well, I'm not having any truck with it!

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Well, you can stay truthful and just deliver News that are real.. but people of today want to hear lies, Dukey... you can say one thing and then they would twist and contort your words to something that they want to hear...

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Very, very true fennie.

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So long...etc.

Well we don't put up with that crap here so when the revolution comes.........

Woohoo!...There's a Blackadder movie!

Whooop-dee-whooppp!!!

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Ah, the old "opium for the people" ploy. Well, since my livelihood is not dependant of this site (more the other way around), I still reckon we can afford to tell the truth here, no?

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I like it, now we need stationary.

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So long...etc.

That should be our motto! Forget all the stupid Latin phrases.

(And I saw the Doctor Who episode entitled Long Game on Friday which was pretty much about lying a lot to the masses and building a huge cooling system for a slimy alien at the same time. And it also had Simon Pegg.)

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Had quite an effect on you, didn't it?

Simon Pegg was lovely in that. Nice even keel of menace and comedy.

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As for the effect: I like the episode, but I still am unable to like the Doctor himself.
It's because of his ears, I think.

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Ah. Affect you that much? Were you mobbed by Dumbo when you were a child?


The wifey doesn't like Doctor Who on the basis that both Eccles and T.Baker are ugly.

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I don't know why Eccleston is so unsympathetic, but I can't really do anything about it. But David Tennant on the other hand is marvellous. And these are the only Doctors I know.

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