That Absolutely Fabulous movie is finally happening, here’s evidence
Way back at the beginning of this year, we reported that Jennifer Saunders had finally finished a draft of the screenplay for an Absolutely Fabulous movie, and was determined to actually make the damn thing in 2015. (This despite the fact that such plans have literally been rolling around for years.) Presumably, the BBC sitcom about aging, hard-partying boozers was simply having trouble rolling its aging, hard-partying script out of bed in the mornings. But now, Variety reports that Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie has woken up, popped some ibuprofen, and is going forward, starting to shoot on location in England and the south of France for the next seven weeks. And lest you think this is yet another promise that will get waylaid in hilariously outlandish fashion through a series of impetuous decisions resulting from two women’s perpetual arrested development, we’ve got that picture up above to prove that it’s real. Or, at least, to prove that Saunders and Lumley think they’re shooting an Absolutely Fabulous movie.