Ab
Fab director Mandie Fletcher is to make a new romcon called Pants on
Fire. The comedy is about the perils of internet dating. The film's
logline is:
He
was single
But
said he was married
She
was wary
but
decided to …
and
then ?
The
film will shoot in May and June in the UK and France for distribution
in 2020. Casting is underway and top of Mandie's dream cast is Richard Gere, Emma Thompson and Sir Michael Caine. The screenplay
is by Martin Duffy and Mandie Fletcher. Producing the film is Mark
Forstater (Monty Python and The Holy Grail) and Bob Mahoney for
Irregular Features Ltd. The budget is £ 5m.
Mandie
Fletcher
AB Fab is screening on New Years Eve at 9.00 PM on BBC1
Mandie
Elizabeth Fletcher
(born 27 December 1954) is an English television and film director.
Fletcher
began her career at the BBC
as an assistant floor manager and later production manager on comedy
programmes, becoming a director of situation comedy while working on
the final series of Butterflies
(1983). She followed this with the second
(1986) and third
(1987) series of Blackadder,[1]
for which she won the Best Comedy Series award at the 1988 BAFTAs.
She also directed episodes of Only
Fools and Horses
(1986).
Her
debut feature was Deadly
Advice
(1994).
Fletcher
has continued to work in television with Hamish
Macbeth
(1996–1997) and Jam
and Jerusalem
(2006–2009). She directed the critically acclaimed BBC 2 series
Roger
& Val Have Just Got In,
which was broadcast in Spring 2012, and starred Dawn French and
Alfred Molina. She also directed the latest episodes of Absolutely
Fabulous
including the Olympic special. In 2013, In 2016 she directed the
Absolutely Fabulous Movie
for
Fox and the 2018 film
Patrick for
Disney.
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