Trigger Happy movie planned

Dom Joly is working on a movie version of his hidden camera show Trigger Happy TV.

He is hoping the film will emulate the success of Sacha Baron Cohen\'s Borat – which similarly formed a full-length script around improvised situations – but Joly insists he won’t be mocking the Americans.

‘We have just written a script for a Trigger Happy movie,’ he told the Mirror. ‘I have just got the first draft. It\'s really funny, I\'m really excited about it.

‘We are going to have a go at doing it in America just because people don\'t recognise me there and America is huge.

‘Borat was quite offensive about Americans and maybe that was true under Bush but I kind of feel we\'re the first post-Obama movie.

\"Our kind of pitch with Trigger Happy is that, although obviously we\'ll be slightly taking the mickey out of Americans, we are basically saying, “Look at this place, it\'s incredible”.’

Published: 10 Jun 2009