Phoenix Nights: The Movie

Kay mulls big-screen outing

Peter Kay is planning to revive Phoenix Nights... as a film.

The comic said he was currently writing down ideas for a possible revival of Brian Potter and Co, with one eye on bringing it to the big screen.

'It's one of those things where I'm just going to wait until the moment is right, and I've got enough funny stuff, and then off we go again,’ he said in an interview with BBC's 6 Music.

'I'm thinking of doing a film of it but I don't know. They're alright these British films but if you open the same weekend as Tomb Raider you're knackered. So I might wait and see... who knows.'

But he added: 'Some of the cast will have to be killed off. Like when Brian Park came into Corrie and got rid of them all.’

Kay's comments come a week after co-creator Dave Spikey told Chortle he hoped to bring the show back, too.

In the interview he also revealed that ghe had been asked to appear on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here – but turned it down flat.

'I couldn't do 'owt like that because I can't be in London for more than one night, I have to get home,' he said.

'I couldn't be in the jungle for two weeks with Cannon And Ball, I'd slit my wrists'

Kay's interview, with presenter, Vic McGlynn, will be broadcast on December 14, the day he takes over the station to champion his favourite songs and artists.

One of them is Tears For Fears' Woman In Chains, which Kay loves because it conjures up happy memories of Phoenix Nights spin-off Max And Paddy - "a fantastic time".
 
He said he would listen to the song on the way back from a night shoot: 'It's hard to explain but I just love it. It's a fantastic song... driving back with the moon in one corner and the sun in the other, Woman In Chains on the CD player, tears in my eyes. It all just sums it up for me.'

 

Published: 11 Nov 2005

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