I've been, or even Benn (see what I did there?), thinking more regarding the ida of Mister Benn the Movie. After the post yesterday I've have thought more and would really, really love this to become a big time movie. For those, if there indeed 'those', reading this blog, this is Mister Benn:
And as described in Wikipedia:
Mr Benn is a character created by David McKee who appears in several children's books, and an animated television series of the same name transmitted by the BBC in 1971 and 1972. Whether in a book, or on television, Mr Benn's adventures take on a similar pattern. Mr Benn, a man wearing a black suit and bowler hat, leaves his house at 52 Festive Road and visits a fancy-dress costume shop where he is invited by the moustachioed, fez-wearing shopkeeper to try on a particular outfit. He leaves the shop through a magic door at the back of the changing room and enters a world appropriate to his costume, where he has an adventure (which usually contains a moral) before the shopkeeper reappears to lead him back to the changing room, and the story comes to an end. Mr Benn returns to his normal life, but is left with a small souvenir of his magical adventure.
There were fourteen episodes, I have the DVD somewhere and will get round to watching it this weekend, in each of which Mr. Benn experienced a different adventure assigned by his particular choice of costume. They were:
The Red Knight
The Big Game Hunter
The Cook
The Caveman
The Balloonist
The Zoo-keeper
The Diver (my favourite)
The Wizard
The Cowboy
The Clown
The Magic Carpet
The Spaceman
The Pirate
The Gladiator
There is so much scope for a real action movie with morals, lets face it there's been some shit out there recently. I think that a screenplay with a good background and following perhaps, three or four of the adventures above would be a good film. My personal preferences would be; The Diver, The Cowboy, The Clown and The Pirate. Can do sue good stories on these.
Any thoughts, if anyone actually reads this shit, would be most welcome and I wouldn't mind a writing partner. actually.
Apparently in narrowly missed bbecoming a movie a few years back.
ReplyDeleteYou are right Richard:
Deletehttp://culture.com/news/item/3629/mr-benn-binned.phtml
Back in 2001 is was deemed 'stale'. Time for another campaign perhaps?