Surviving Monty Python Members Reunite for New Film

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The original Monty Python troupe in 1969. Front row, l.-r., Terry Jones, John Cleese and Michael Palin; back row, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam.

And now for something completely unexpected.

The brilliantly funny Brits behind ?Monty Python's Flying Circus? are reuniting for the first time for a big-screen adventure in nearly 30 years.

Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle will lend their voices to the sci-fi farce "Absolutely Anything."

Original group member Graham Chapman died in 1989.

It's not being considered a Monty Python film, but it would be the first time all of the surviving members of the comedy group have appeared together in a movie since 1983?s ?Monty Python?s The Meaning of Life.?

"It's not a Monty Python picture, but it certainly has that sensibility," Jones told Variety.

The film, which will starting production next year and combine CGI and live action, will feature the five as aliens who endow a human with the power to do anything just to see what happens. It will be directed by Jones from a script he co-wrote with Gavin Scott.

The Monty Python troupe made five films in total, starting with 1971's "And Now for Something Completely Different."?

Different members of the Python players have worked together on different projects over the years. For example, Cleese and Palin worked together on two films, "A Fish Called Wanda" in 1988 and "Fierce Creatures" in 1997. Idle also played a role in Gilliam's 1988 fantasy film, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen."

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