Python’s New Project Ready To Rock

Monty Python star Terry Jones is involved in a new company which plans to make low-budget British films. Messiah Pictures, which is supported by Jones' fellow Pythons Terry Gilliam and John Cleese, and Jonathan Ross, will focus on discovering new talent. Jones says that the three essentials for a great film are "a good script, a good script and a good script" and that keeping within a limited budget is "an attitude of mind". Messiah Pictures is already working on its first film script - Julian Doyle's adaptation of The Chemical Wedding, a story by Bruce Dickinson, former lead singer with heavy metal band Iron Maiden.