Jennifer Saunders is planning to write an Absolutely Fabulous scrip to take the hilarious TV show to the big Screen.
Deadline reports:
Absolutely Fabulous creator and co-star Jennifer Saunders plans to write a movie version of the BBC TV comedy. She hopes to pen the feature film next year once she has finished work on the Spice Girls London stage musical Viva Forever. BBC Films boss Christine Langan tells me: “I think she’s a genius. I can’t imagine anything more exciting than working with her.” Absolutely Fabulous, which aired on BBC America, follows the lives of two best friends – Edina, an international PR guru by trade but a 1960s teenager at heart, and Patsy, a sex-crazed magazine editor. Ab Fab: The Movie will kick off with Patsy and Edina waking up hungover in the empty drifting yacht of an oligarch in the middle of the ocean. Even worse, their cellphones can’t get a signal.
The Absolutely Fabulous girls Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders will also return to television with three upcoming specials on BBC. The first episode will air on Christmas. Oh Sweetie, Darling!
