First Look at Taika Waititi's TIME BANDITS Series Starring Lisa Kudrow
Apple TV+ has released an image from Taika Waititi’s upcoming fantasy adventure series Time Bandits, and it offers a first look at the main characters.
The actors in the photo include Lisa Kudrow, Tadhg Murphy, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Kal-El Tuck, Kiera Thompson, and Rune Temte.
This series is a reimagining of Terry Gilliam’s classic 1981 film, which is a movie I absolutely loved as a kid! I still love it, and I hope that this series manages to capture the greatness of that original movie.
The show reimagines the classic story, and it has been described as a comedic journey through time and space with a ragtag group of thieves led by Kudrow’s character Penelope, and their newest recruit: an eleven-year-old history nerd named Kevin.
Waititi talked about his experience watching the original film with EW, saying: “It was just nothing I’d really ever seen before. I remember being freaked out by a lot of it. A lot of the kids’ films back then were not as inventive and imaginative.”
When talking about casting Kudrow in the series, the filmmaker said: “I just love Lisa Kudrow and thought it’d be awesome to see her leading a band of idiots through time.”
Waititi also teased that a few other familiar faces will pop up throughout the series. “I loved working with the cast and all the actors that we got in. We have repeat actors who change roles throughout the different episodes. They have that in the film as well. It’s kind of the Monty Python thing, where people come back and play a different character.”
Taika developed the series along with Jemaine Clement, who said: “Most of the things that Taika and I have done have been very cheap. He’s done lots of big-budget things, but I haven’t been on this side of the big budget.
“So it was great to have a bigger box of paint to work with. But I always enjoy working with Taika. We’ve got a real shorthand with each other. I forget when I work with other writers or directors, there’s a bit more explanation that has to take place.”
He added: “There’s some you’d expect and some you wouldn’t perhaps. We go from prehistoric dinosaur times to the ‘90s. There are some medieval places like medieval England and medieval Africa. And we go the Ice Age. That’s a fun one.”
The series will consist of ten episodes, and I hope that Waititi and his creative team will be able to pull off something awesome with this.
