Simon Pegg will play the lead in the new Monty Python almost-reunion movie
Simon Pegg has just hopped on the Monty Python reunion train. He’ll star in the long-awaited sci-fi comedy Absolutely Anything, which will be directed by theTerry Jones and feature the voices of John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Michael Palin, as well as Robin Williams. Pegg takes over for John Oliver in the role of Neil Clarke, a disillusioned school teacher who has magical powers suddenly bestowed upon him by aliens voiced by Cleese, Gilliam, Jones, and Palin. Williams will voice Clarke’s talking dog.