Shannon Matthews: The Musical - The Movie
- 2024 film
Adaptation of stage musical by Künt about the true story of a mother faking her daughter's disappearance. Also features Samantha Hindman, Rob Kirtley, Joseph McCallum, Mr. Jels, Billy Doherty and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 2024
- Stars
- Samantha Hindman, Rob Kirtley, Joseph McCallum, Mr. Jels, Billy Doherty, Laura Castle, Will Murray, Roy Tarmac and more
- Writer
- Künt
- Director
- Samantha Hindman
- Producers
- Künt, Meetal Leeka, Mark Williamson, David Fowler, Riley E.L.F., Lee Barnett, Tina Smith, Taylor Thompson and Elton Murphy
- Company
Shannon Matthews: The Musical is a dark, daft comedy which revels in the ridiculousness of the real-life story of mother-from-hell Karen Matthews. Inspired by the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, she decides to fake the kidnapping of her own daughter, little Shannon Matthews, aged nine, in an attempt to cash in the reward money.
In August 2022 Shannon Matthews: The Musical made its stage debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In October 2022, a Kickstarter campaign successfully funded the production of this feature film adaptation of the musical.
Additional details
- UK release
- Friday 26th April 2024
- UK premiere
- Friday 26th April 2024, Vue Cinema at The Light, Leeds
- Picture
- Colour
- Soundtrack
- Music originally created by Kunt and the Gang, except "Shannon Ain't Dead (She's Under My Bed)", based on "Billy Ain't Dead (He's In My Shed)" by Arse2Mouth. Backing music performed by The Kunts, with additional brass and precussion performed by Gary Richardson, cello performed by Grape Cohen, and tromboing performed by Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer.
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Recording details
- Yorkshire, Essex and Gloucester