The cast of the new Dad's Army film has been released!! Toby Jones as Captain Mainwairing Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson Sir Tom Courtney as Corporal Jones Michael Gambon as Godfrey Daniel Mays as Walker Blake Harrison (Neil from the Inbetweeners) as Pike Bill Patterson as Fraser It's all being filmed on location in Yorkshire. Really looking forward to this and I think they've got the casting pretty much spot on, just hope it isn't ballsed up, but I don't think they'd have taken the project on if they knew they weren't going to do it justice. http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42404
Tout a doubt, this will be the millionth mercenary episode of remaking something great from history and throwing its memory to the ground and pissing all over it. The best thing I could say about it is that it'll probably be better than the film remake of Bilko.
In todays context there is nothing special about the original Dads Army , so i hope people dont expect alternative comedy for this movie . If we get Johnny English in fatigues then job done - pretty low brow and dated but nothing to cut wrists over And certainly not a slur on the original shows
I used to love the Phil Silvers Show when I was a kid and bought the full DVD set a couple of years back - still as funny the second time around. Duane Doberman was a great character and, apparently, was just like that off screen. I suspect that Dad's Army drew some inspiration from the show.
They were all top notch: the blithering Col. Hall, Doberman, Ritzik, Paperelli etc. I read somewhere that Silvers would ad lib a lot of Bilko's spiel. The show tailed off a bit when they moved to a different fort (different writers I think) but the first few series are ****ing ace.
Aye. legend has it Bilko used to ad lib to mess Ritzik up and his ooh ooh was in part a reaction to that. Doberman died in 1964 kinell, luckily he did the Benny the Ball voice for Top Cat before snuffing it. Ritzik did Botch in the Hair Bear Bunch ooh ooh Mr peevily.
Didnât know that â ta. Bilko always bleeds Ritzik dry at cards, but thereâs an episode where for some reason, he tries his best to lose to Ritzik but stuggles. The way Bilko butters up the ladies is almost an instructional video.
I really hope I'm wrong, but I can't draw any other feeling from it then it will be ****. Not that keen on Nighy either, particularly in the great John Le Mesurier's shoes. All in all, I just can't see them bucking the trend and producing something of any note.
Has this sort of thing ever worked though? I'm sure someone somewhere will be able to offer an exception but off the top o' the cheesebox, I can't think of any.
