Matt Lucas & David Walliams wanted a Lou & Andy, Little Britain movie
Matt Lucas and David Walliams tried to make a Little Britain spin-off movie featuring the characters Lou and Andy they have revealed.
Speaking on their Making A Scene podcast, the duo disclosed that they'd hoped to put Andy, portrayed by Lucas, who feigns needing a wheelchair, and his carer Lou, played by Walliams, in an American roadtrip film, which would also serve as Lou and Andy's origin story.
"It would possibly go up to and beyond the moment when Lou discovers that Andy actually can walk" Lucas recalled.
In the 2000s, hit comedies such as Ali G, The League Of Gentlemen, The Inbetweeners and Harry Hill's television outings were all turned into movies Walliams noted.
But, he said: "I think we were worried because our characters, unlike some of those other shows ... these characters you meet for two minutes at a time ... it might overstretch things.
"And also, the movies I've mentioned are good. But sometimes those movies are terrible and it's sort of really eggy and embarrassing ... and they often look cheap because they probably are cheap."
Nevertheless, the pair actually did write some of their other Little Britain characters into a film screenplay as part of the deal that took Little Britain USA to HBO in 2008.
Penned with another, unnamed writer, the unmade, Las Vegas-set movie, would have featured Lucas and Walliams playing "many characters", including Lucas reprising his roles as the morbidly obese Bubbles DeVere and terrible stage hypnotist Kenny Craig.
Walliams admitted that they had been too ambitious, trying to write a $100million movie. "We started talking about Johnny Depp being in it and those kind of things".
Lucas agreed, reasoning that if they'd written a "$5 or $6million" movie, "then maybe we'd have got it away.
"Doesn't mean it would have been any good or successful. But it would have been made and that's the key, actually getting something made isn't it?"