Darlings, you’ll want to set down the champagne before you hear this. Then, you’ll want to pick it up, down it, and pour another glass.
Jennifer Saunders, 56, has announced that an Ab Fab feature is most certainly happening in 2015.
Saunders, who also plays mother-of-the-century and PR diva extraordinaire Edina in the show, has finished writing a script for a movie that has apparently been in the works since the series first went off the air in 1995.
She told the Sunday People, “I’ve finished the first draft. I’m feeling euphoric. My proper New Year’s resolution is to do the film, otherwise it’ll be a pointless year of procrastination.”
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Edina’s daughter Saffy, played by Julia Sawalha, 46, has naturally been written into the script. By now she must be a doctor or something, but she’ll never be too old to shake her head at Mum’s antics.
Jen joked she would like to see Angelina Jolie, 39, replacing Joanna Lumley, 68, as Patsy and an orangutan playing her part.
“That would be funny, Angelina Jolie and an orangutan.”
We’re not sure what Jen was smoking when she made those casting decisions, but we’ll be perfectly happy with the original cast, thank you.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Eldergay humour. Move on. Comedy has. Or ought to have done.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
I should add that I think Joanna Lumley is funny (and she carried the whole thing), but little else is. Stick to the box sets.
n900mixalot
Yes PLEASE!!! @PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID: If it’s over your head, just admit it. No need to try to ruin everyone else’s Christmas with your bitters. No one wants “to drink a cup full of your anger!”
Stache99
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID: What the fuck is eldergay humor?
Geoff B
Eldergay humor? This was hilarious when I was 21. It still is now that I’m not THAT elder.
Witchiepoo
@n900mixalot: POS is entitled to his opinion and I agree with him that Joanna is quite funny. Everything else is just carpet.
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Dorset Lad
@Witchiepoo: Carpet madness lol! That’s just made my day. Need to re-watch that episode now… Absolutely Fabulous is still relevant. It’s one of the crutches I use to get through life, paraphrasing Eddie, so I can’t wait for the movie. This has been highly anticipated for a long long time.
Cam
The last episode with the Olympics was not funny, and before that Saunders seems to think that just mentioning things like Twitter is funny.
However, that said, she is a talented writer and has been working on a script for 20 years so I am crossing my fingers and hoping it is as funny as the series used to be!
robho3
Loved this show in the 90’s but I don’t know how it will play out in 2015. The last episodes they did awhile back where not that great. I think Miss Saunders should maybe come up with a new concept.
orcanyc
Can’t wait, Can’t wait, so excited!!
nature boy
I loved early AbFab and agree that it is “eldergay humor”…. it’s only funny to people who have lived a certain amount of time, have endured dysfunctional families, have grown up and realized adults often still act like children. Who are themselves grown up and realize they still are children at heart floundering around in a grown-up world. AbFab is particularly relevant to kids who had to take the parenting role in their families. It was an early show to be very gay supportive also, where the gay dad and his partner are the admirable boring characters and the hetero Mom is the dysfunctional crazy lunatic. Still… she always wishes her children would be gay so they would be more interesting to her. That was a shocking statement at the time. And yet all the dysfunction would occasionally get balanced out by a moment of real truth. So, yes, it does take a grown-up to appreciate the humor, and also a good ear to understand the accents.