Absolutely Anything
Great power. Total irresponsibility.
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$0
Box office
$6 303 792
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Bill Jones, Ben Timlett, Mike Medavoy, Chris Chesser, Jason Garrett, David Rogers, Mark Sandell, Edward Simons
Camera operator
Peter Hannan
Composer
George Fenton
Artist
James Acheson, Martyn Smith, Beranger Maurice
Audition
Irene Lamb
Editing
Short description
Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
What's left behind the scenes
- Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal, who play Ray and Fiona, are married. This is far from the first comedy in which they have starred together.
- Robin Williams stated in a 2009 interview that he had always dreamed of appearing in a film with Simon Pegg.
- To get the dog to look at Neil, actor Simon Pegg attached a sausage to his head.
- The film's musical theme is performed by Kylie Minogue.
- The roles of Neil and Catherine were originally intended for Benedict Cumberbatch and Gemma Arterton.
- This is Robin Williams's final role. The film was released a year after the actor's death.
- The topic of the lesson that Simon Pegg’s character teaches in high school is Shakespeare’s play "The Winter’s Tale." In the film "Armageddon" (2013), Pegg’s character recalls studying "The Winter’s Tale" in school.
- Filming took place mostly in an abandoned school that had been converted into a soundstage. Not only school scenes were filmed here, but also episodes in Neil's apartment and at the cemetery. As someone from the crew remarked: "Just like 'Pinewood Studios,' only in miniature."
- Terry Jones and Gavin Scott began working on the script in the early 1990s. In an interview in 2014, Jones stated that he showed the script to the famous science fiction writer Douglas Adams, who found the scenes with the dog Dennis to be "the funniest."
- Judy Lou, Kate Beckinsale's mother, played a small role in the film.
- When the aliens first appear in the film, crashed spaceships can be seen in the background. The one at the very top can be identified as the spaceship from the comedy "Monty Python's Life of Brian" (1979), in which Brian escaped from Roman guards.
- This is director Terry Jones' first film in 19 years.
- Terry Jones played the truck driver who runs over Neil at the beginning of the film.
- Simon Pegg loves dogs. He worked wonderfully with Mojo, the dog playing his dog named Dennis.
- This is the first film since the comedy musical “The Meaning of Life” (1983) to feature all five currently living members of the “Monty Python” troupe. Director Terry Jones suggested that this was the last time they would perform together.
- Terry Jones admitted that Herbert Wells's story "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" had a huge influence on him while writing the script.
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