Toby Jones, Lena Headey, Celia Imrie and Anna Chancellor are now on the staff roll for Barnaby Thompson's St. Trinian's remake. Does this mean Headey's Terminator show didn't get picked up after a pilot? I wouldn't be surprised - she's bird-boned, not exactly Sarah Connor material.
This new St. Trinian's is going to be Britain's answer to the School For Scoundrels remake, I have no dounbt.
Barnaby Thompson's St. Trinians remake has been survived the sudden shifts in UK tax law and is to begin shooting on Monday. Empire have a roll call of cast: Emily Watson in the Joyce Grenfell role; Rupert Everett in the Alistair Sim role - which is, if you din't know, that of the headmistress; Colin Firth in what appears to be the George Cole role; Stephen Fry; Richard E Grant; Jodie Whittaker, who was massively overrated in the fairly overrated Venus; Caterina Murino; and, somewhere, somehow, somewhy, the one and only Russel Brand.
Sounds like an absolute disaster. This really needed at least Richard Loncraine in full-on loony camp mode behind the camera and Richard Curtis at the word processor.
Curtis, instead, has been saving Anthony Minghella's behind by doing a draft of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
