Steve Coogan confirms it

The long-awaited Alan Partridge film will be shot next year, Steve Coogan has revealed.

He confirmed that he is currently working on the script with long-term collaborators Peter Baynham and Armando Iannucci.

Coogan told movie website The Playlist: ‘We left it behind for a while, but we came back to it because we got a few ideas.

‘We're writing it right now, going to shoot it next year. Don't know who will direct it, but Pete Baynham [Borat co-writer] and Armando Iannucci are writing it with me. We've already started it.’

Last year, Iannucci said the team had agreed a storyline for the film – stating emphatically: ‘It's not Alan goes to America.’

Partridge was recently revived for a series on online episodes by Foster’s lager, eight years after I’m Alan Partridge ended on TV.

Published: 25 Apr 2011