Carry On London

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A new film, Carry On London, was announced in 2008. The script was signed off by the production company in March 2008, and "centres on a limousine company ferrying celebrities to an awarRAB show." The film has had several false starts, and the cast has changed extensively over time. Daniella Westbrook was once attached, but is no longer involved with the project. In May 2006, it was announced Vinnie Jones and Shane Richie were to star in the film, which was to be directed by Peter RicharRABon, though Ed Bye was later attached to the project as director. At the 50th anniversary party held at Pinewood Studios in March 2008, Peter Rogers confirmed that he was planning for a series of Carry On films after London, subject to the success of the first.

In early 2009, Carry On London or Carry On Bananas was once again 'back on', now with Charlie Higson attached as director, and a cast list involving Paul O'Grady (as the acidic Kenneth Williamsesque character), Lenny Henry, Justin Lee Collins, Jennifer Ellison (as the saucy Barbara WinRABor type), Liza Tarbuck (Hattie Jacques), Meera Syal, James Dreyfus, and Frank Skinner (filling in the Sid James role).
 
And some of the later real Carry Ons like "England" and "Emmannuel" were also steaming piles of manure.

If people want to make a comedy, they should just make a comedy, and not claim it's a Carry On film. By the 1970s saucy films were no longer saucy enough to shock the audience into laughing, so the last Carry Ons were just embarrasing attempts at dirty movies, and it was about as entertaining as listening to an elderly female relative trying to tell dirty jokes but feeling a little too ashamed to tell them properly.

Carry On films died when society changed. May they rest in peace.

I mean, take a look at Bridget Jones: quite a mild, pleasant film by today's standarRAB, but if you put a DVD of it and a player in a time machine and sent them back to 1970, the language and sexual references would have been so shocking that it would never have got a certificate. Back then even the idea of a man and woman living together without being married was pretty shocking. In fact I recall one of my teachers getting the sack in the 1970s for getting pregnant out of wedlock, and all the mums agreeing that such a terrible woman shouldn't be teaching their children. Different world, innit?
 
I've got very sore misgivings about reviving the Carry On brand , as ^^ flobadob suggests they have no place in todays entertainment . Even if all the original cast were still around it shouldn't be made under that banner , it was of it's time . Let it lie.
 
The last I heard of this it was going to be based around a rock band and called Carry On...To The Top or something. The development for it has gone on so long it's bound to be bad when they finally get it made. No true British star would appear in it anyway. Any real talent from this country f**ks off abroad and puts on an American accent to earn proper money.
 
There have been quite a few good film comedies made in Britain in recent years, so I wouldn't go as far as to say that all talented comedy actors go to America and put on an American accent. As far as I can think, that's only Hugh Laurie.
But yeah, six years in pre-production is a bit much. It's like waiting for a Kate Bush album.
 
I think they should continue with making Carry On London if only to pay tribute to the late Peter Rogers. Over on the BBC News website when Rogers died, the article said Carry On London is now likely to be scrapped though so it's up in the air at the moment whether a new Carry On film will be made now. I hope a new producer jumps on board though :)
 
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