Film4 is funding satirist Chris Morris' latest project after both the
BBC and Channel 4 rejected it for TV.
The comedy, which centres on wannabe suicide bombers operating from a
jihadist cell in the North of England, was originally conceived as a
TV series but will now be a film.
Morris has said the comedy will seek to do for Islamic terrorism what
Dad's Army did for the Nazis by showing them as "scary but also
ridiculous".
Neither broadcaster has commented on reports that the subject matter
was deemed too contentious for TV.
Mark Herbert is producing the as-yet untitled project for Warp Films,
the spin-off of music label Warp Records that made its film debut with
Morris' Bafta-winning short My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117 in 2002.
As with all Film4 projects, C4 will have first refusal on TV rights.
The film is Morris' first comedy since C4's Nathan Barley in 2005. His
previous two TV series, Brass Eye and Jam, also aired on the channel –
the former after being rejected by the BBC.
A spokeswoman for Channel 4 said: "Channel 4 has a long history of
working with Chris Morris, and a significant funding contribution
towards his latest project is being made.
I have alot of respect for warp!
I wonder if the CD The Fire This Time was a Warp sublabel as alot of the musicians are Warp artists!
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:44 am Post subject:
Film 4 to show terrorist comedy rejected by BBC and Channel 4
By Mark Jefferies 26/09/2008
Film4 has agreed to fund media terrorist Chris Morris's latest project after both the BBC and Channel 4 rejected it - amid reports that it was deemed too contentious for TV.
The comedy about wannabe suicide bombers operating from a Jihadist cell in the north was conceived as a TV series but will now be made as a film.
However, there's still a chance it could end up on the box because - as with all Film4 projects - C4 has first refusal on TV rights.
A C4 spokeswoman said: "A significant funding contribution towards his latest project is being made.
"It was agreed at a very early stage that the project would work best as a film."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZVfyQyu9RY
By Mirror.co.uk 22/01/2010
http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/01/22/four-lions-ten-things-y ou-need-to-know-about-chris-morris-suicide-bomber-comedy-115875-219874 12/
Never one to shy away from controversy, Brass Eye satirist Chris Morris’ hotly anticipated debut as a movie director is unsurprisingly provocative.
Here below we list ten facts about what looks set to be one of 2010’s most talked about films.
1. Described as showing "the Dad's Army side to terrorism", Four Lions tells the story of a group four wannabe suicide bombers from the North of England.
2. Morris is said to have completed the script for the film in 2008, following three years of research, which included speaking to terrorism experts, police, the secret service and imams as well as ordinary Muslims.
3. The script also features the talents of Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, best known for their work on Channel 4’s Peep Show.
4. The cast includes Atonement star Benedict Cumberpatch, Julia Davis, who plays Dawn in Gavin and Stacey, and long-time Morris collaborator Kevin Eldon, who is said to play the part of an incompetent anti-terror police officer.
5. Primarily shot on location in Sheffield, it’s also rumoured that the Swiss Alps were also used instead of Pakistan for a terrorist training camp scene.
6. Key scenes from the film are said to include a farcical suicide bomb plot at a Sheffield fun run that sees the bombers dressed in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle outfits.
7. The film is set to get its world premiere later this month at the Sundance Festival, where it’s in the running for the World Cinema Narrative prize.
8. The film was allegedly turned down by the BBC for being too controversial, before Film Four took on the project alongside Warp Films.
9. In order to raise funds for the film, Morris offered fans the opportunity to be extras in return for donations to its production costs.
10. Despite the film’s contentious subject matter, Morris seems undeterred by the hullabaloo that will inevitably greet the movie. "Most of us would dearly love to laugh in the face of our worst fears”, he says. “Why aren't we laughing at terrorists? Because we didn't know how to, until now." _________________ www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org www.rethink911.org www.patriotsquestion911.com www.actorsandartistsfor911truth.org www.mediafor911truth.org www.pilotsfor911truth.org www.mp911truth.org www.ae911truth.org www.rl911truth.org www.stj911.org www.v911t.org www.thisweek.org.uk www.abolishwar.org.uk www.elementary.org.uk www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/2149 http://utangente.free.fr/2003/media2003.pdf
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Chris Morris's film and Tarpley are saying the same thing .... "bedroom bombers" just don't exist. Large scale, multi target, simultaneous terror attacks require the organization, control and expertise only found in state
security groups.
Has anyone actually seen this yet to shed some light on the proposed
underlying theme?
Quote:
How did the film come about?
I was reading about a plot to ram a US warship. In the dead of night with the target moored just offshore, the cell assembled at the quayside, slipped their boat into the water and stacked it with explosives. It sank. I laughed. I wasn't expecting that. You know the Hamburg cell was lead by Mohamed Atta - but did you know he was so strict that the other plotters called him "the ayatollah"? That every time he formed an Islamic discussion group he was so critical he fired them all within a week? The unfathomable world of extremism seemed to contain elements of farce.
Cases in the high court and meetings with Muslims only confirmed the impression. People go to training camps in the wrong clothes, forget how to make bombs, fight with each other and then fight again over who just won the fight, volunteer for the mujahedeen and get told to go home and "do the knitting". They talk about who's cooler - bin Laden or Johnny Depp. The more I looked, the more reality played against type. Then the penny dropped. A cell of terrorists is a bunch of blokes. A small group of fired up lads planning cosmic war from a bedsit - not a bad pressure cooker for jokes.
What interested you about the subject matter and why did you want to make it.
Well the subject matter is turning a massive global wheel at the moment. How could you not be interested? Once you've had your preconceptions flipped - and discovered it can be funny too, how could you not make a film about it?
Did you have any advisors attached to the film?
A crew is always a committee of advisers - design, photography etc - and our crew was superb - but if you mean a specific "cultural adviser" on the team then no. Often a production will have a rather bolted on "cultural adviser". I figured if I didn't know something then I'd better go and find out the answer first hand. And for that I needed help from all sorts of people. As a result I built up a network of friends and contacts with different specialties and they helped introduce me to ex fighters, secret services etc... So we ended up with a network of absolutely essential guides. The most indefatigable of them became permanent members of crew - and worked as producers - helping out with every aspect of production. The film simply wouldn't have been possible without them.
Did you have any difficulties raising the finance to make the film and get a producing partner on board? Did you make any concessions?
Considering how much it's influencing the world at the moment, people know incredibly little about this subject. When it came to funding, a lot of people were unable to think beyond their jumpy gut reaction. The people who ended up funding the film were those who could spot the difference between what we were doing and the desire to cause trouble. They could see the film was not racist, was not attacking a culture, but may just be suggesting that killing people is not a good idea. So we made no concessions. Anyone who wanted to "change the ending" got very short shrift.
Do you think people will feel you are trying to shock and offend? Might they feel you are mocking Islamic beliefs?
Only if they haven't seen the film. You might use shock to mock overblown public attitudes to things that don't matter. But terrorism does matter. We're trying to make you laugh - to entertain - to surprise - to move even. You don't have to mock Islamic beliefs to make a joke out of someone who wants to run the world under sharia law but can't apply it in his own home because his wife won't let him. About someone buying bomb making materials and then forgetting how to make a bomb. About someone performing elaborate "anti surveillance" techniques including running in circles and wearing a cowboy hat - in full sight of two surveillance teams. Or indeed about an intelligence officer setting up a surveillance station in the boot of a car - which is then jacked by joy riders.
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Sorry I meant crazydave's idea,which I like despite the article you've linked to Dm.I think it's pretty well known the press make things up
Might see this for myself.everyone needs a good laugh every now and then eh:lol: _________________ The poster previously known as "Newspeak International"
Sorry I meant crazydave's idea,which I like despite the article you've linked to Dm.I think it's pretty well known the press make things up
Might see this for myself.everyone needs a good laugh every now and then eh:lol:
I just don't think it's accurate though, even if you might consider it a pleasing interpretation. Everything I've seen says the same thing - he observed a farcical side to terrorism and thought it was funny. How can an ending like this -
Spoiler Alert!!!!!!!
Stop reading if you don't want to see how it ends!
Quote:
Fessal accidentally kills himself during a training exercise.[2] The film culminates in the remaining four blowing themselves up at the London Marathon.[4]
Chris Morris's film and Tarpley are saying the same thing .... "bedroom bombers" just don't exist.
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But it fits very well with this comment from Morris in the interview I posted -
Quote:
They could see the film was not racist, was not attacking a culture, but may just be suggesting that killing people is not a good idea. So we made no concessions. Anyone who wanted to "change the ending" got very short shrift.
I think you're engaged in wishful thinking about what you'd like Morris to be saying. _________________ It's a man's life in MOSSAD
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 8:28 pm Post subject:
If it were accurate it wouldn't get made Dm, subtle may have been!
Not good form with the spoiler Dm (though I never read it), it's your opinion in the end.I would prefer making my own mind up,without being told the ending.
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Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:55 am Post subject:
Latest weapon in fight against home-grown terrorism … satire
Published Date: 16 April 2010
By Joe Sinclair
SATIRICAL films such as Chris Morris's Four Lions should be used as a weapon to undermine homegrown terrorism.
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Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject:
Thanks for finding that Wakeymedia.CM speaks very fluently without a trace of suspicion of official myths. _________________ The poster previously known as "Newspeak International"
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 5:08 pm Post subject:
Four Lions film boycott urged by 7/7 families
Quote:
Families who lost relatives in the 2005 London bomb attacks are appealing to cinemas not to show a British comedy about four aspiring suicide bombers.
Four Lions, created by satirist Chris Morris, focuses on four men travelling to London to target the marathon.
Graham Foulkes, whose son was among the 52 killed on 7 July 2005, said that, with the tragedy still raw, the film was too closely aligned to real events.
A spokesperson for the makers was not immediately available for comment.
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