EPIX Preps 3D Animated Feature with Monty Python Members

NEW YORK: EPIX is in production on A Liar’s Autobiography, a 3D animated film based on the memoir of the late Monty Python member Graham Chapman, to be presented under the newly introduced EPIX Pictures banner.

A Liar’s Autobiography will be made in association with Bill and Ben Productions, Trinity and Brainstorm Media. The film will tell the story of Chapman’s life, presented in Monty Python style. The EPIX original will feature recordings Chapman made of his book in 1982, a year before his passing.

The film’s world TV premiere will be in both 2D and 3D on EPIX and EpixHD.com in spring 2012, followed by a U.K. theatrical release from Trinity. Executive producers Mark Sandell of Trinity and Meyer Shwarzstein of Brainstorm Media will distribute the animated feature in the U.K. and U.S., respectively.

"This innovative and modern take on Chapman’s comic genius is an exciting event, and EPIX is thrilled to premiere A Liar’s Autobiography in the United States," said Mark Greenberg, EPIX’s president and CEO.

"I had no idea until recently that Graham Chapman is in fact dead, I thought he was just being lazy," commented Monty Python’s Terry Jones. "However, I am now delighted to find myself working with him again on this exciting project."