>> Help Morris! << Turn terrorism comedy into movie
We told you that Chris Morris' terror cell comedy had been rejected by a fearful Channel 4 and BBC. It seems they have a history of this. Muslim comedian Omar Mazouk was to present a mockumentary about misguided suicide bombers for BBC but this was also nixed. He took the idea to a TV network in Denmark instead, where it's getting rave reviews.
And putting two fingers up to TV commissioners, Morris is turning his Jihadi sitcom into a film. He's got producers at Warpfilm and a distributor. All he needs now is enough money to make the film. Which is where we come in. Popbitch readers donating between 25 and 100 quid to help get the film made will get the chance to be in it. So get out your cheque book and burkha and email: fundingmentalism@warpfilms.com
Chris would not deny or confirm that recruits who sign up will also get a free al-Qaeda explosives handbook.
I emailed them for more info and received the following...
Welcome and thank you for offering to join the struggle.
Your self-brainwashing package will arrive in 14 days.
We shall win! And you will taste the spoils of victory!
When they were setting it up, those crazy Germans at Bertelsmann were going to call the UK site bol.uk.
Owen's boss was the fantastically named Heinz Wermelinger. He told Owen he thought the secret to success for the online book market in the UK was to concentrate on "sexy books", pronounced sheckshy booksh.
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In the bank at lunchtime, one of the service personnel there had a badge declaring his first name to be Olol. O LOL. I thought.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: He told Owen he thought the secret to success for the online book market in the UK was to concentrate on "sexy books", pronounced sheckshy booksh.
quote:Thanks for your email offering support for the “Four Lions” project.
The response so far has been extremely encouraging and our next move depends on numbers. We won’t ask for your money until we have enough people involved to make the system work.
So whether you want to be in the film or just fancy a binge of coin chucking, please spray the news around.
And if passing this on seems like a bit of a hassle? Well think about it. Yesterday, over a hundred thousand people - alive and breathing and not passing it on just like you are thinking of not passing it on - died. It’s unlikely they were all wiped out precisely because they weren’t passing it on but its not impossible is it? Not totally statistically unimaginably impossible. Run that by yourself a couple of times before you decide not to pass it on.
Coincidentally, I went to see a film of the same name by the same director last night. It was quite good and also thought-provoking, which is fairly unusual for a... well, for a film in my case really. It provoked a couple of thoughts, but I've recovered ok now. Thanks for paying for it anyway Vikram. Do I send the ticket stub to you directly to get the money back?
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sheckshy booksh. sheckshy booksh. I am having fun saying this sotto voce at my desk.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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I am lolling at the fact that - while scrolling through this thread - I was saying sheckshy booksh, sheckshy booksh to myself. Then got to the last post.
Apparently nothing changes.
Four Lions was good though, in a very Chris Morris vein.
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