With Jack Carroll, Johnny Vegas and Antonio Aakeel

Here is the first footage from the new British comedy film Eaten By Lions

Shot last year, the film stars stand-up and Trollied actor Jack Carroll and Skins actor Antonio Aakeel as two half-brothers, Omar and Pete, who seek out Omar's birth father, who they think is a Bollywood actor, and find him living in Blackpool.

The film features a cast of comedy faces including Johnny Vegas, who plays Ray, 'a cross-dressing hotelier with a heart of gold'.

No release date has yet been announced but a teaser trailer has been released on YouTube:

And here are some of the comedy names in brief clips.

Johnny Vegas plays 'a cross-dressing hotelier with a heart of gold', who never leaves his hotel:

Tom Binns plays a fortune teller in the style of his psychic character Ian D Montfort:

Vicki Pepperdine and Kevin Eldon play a married couple:

And People Just Do Nothing's Asim Chaudry plays Irfan, the owner of first Indian and Pakistani gift shop in Blackpool:

Comics Janice Connolly – known as Barbara Nice on the circuit – Phil Ellis and Peter Slater also have roles along with  soap actors Nitin Ganatra (Eastenders) and Hayley Tamaddon (Emmerdale).

The film is based on director and co-writer Jason  Wingard's 2014 short Going To Mecca, which also starred Carroll, but featured Aqib Khan as his half-brother.

Published: 11 Mar 2018