Trailer: A Liar’s Autobiography
Media | Oct 8th, 2012
A Liar’s Autobiography reunites Monty Python members (even the dead one) in cartoon form. The movie is about the late Monty Python alum Graham Chapman and features recordings of Chapman from his 1982 novel matched with those of the present Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin & Terry Gilliam recordings. The movie was directed by Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson & Ben Timlett. It looks like this is gonna be a strange, unique animated movie, which is right up Monty Python’s alley. It will be in theaters on November 2nd and will air on EPIX as well. Well, I’ll at least catch it on EPIX since I have that station.
Graham Chapman, probably best remembered as ‘the dead one from Monty Python’, writes and stars in the animated movie of his own life story, A Liar’s Autobiography. He was born, he went to Cambridge and met John Cleese, he smoked a pipe, he became a doctor, he became a Python, he decided he was gay (well, 70/30, according to a survey he did on himself), he got drunk a lot, he stopped being drunk, he made some films, he had some sex (actually, a lot), and moved to Los Angeles. Finally, he was whisked up into space by aliens (although that might have been in a film).
Although Chapman selfishly dropped dead in 1989, he had taken the trouble to record himself reading his book, A Liar’s Autobiography – and those recordings have now ingeniously been used to provide Chapman’s voice for the 3D animated feature of the same name. Fellow Pythons John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam also turn up, playing themselves and other characters, along with a few surprise guests.Not a documentary, not a Monty Python film, A Liar’s Autobiography is Chapman’s own take on his bizarre life and his search for self-knowledge. Incredible, yes. Surreal, certainly. True, who knows? At his memorial service, John Cleese called Chapman “a freeloading bastard”. Now, as the film re-unites Chapman with Cleese, Jones, Palin, and Gilliam for the first time in 23 years, he is set to earn a new title – the most prolific corpse since Elvis.
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