Novak has the outline in place

Kayvan Novak says he has written the outline for the movie version of Facejacker.

Earlier this year he revealed that he was making a big-screen version of his Channel 4 prank show, inspired by the way Sacha Baron Cohen transferred his characters out of TV.

And today he said: ‘The skeleton is there. It will have all your favourite characters and it will be in the UK and abroad and will be very funny.

He told fans: ‘It will be exciting, but don't get too excited too quickly,’ – since the slow process of making films means it wouldn’t hit cinemas until 2014.

The Anglo-Iranian comic previously said that the film would retain its hidden camera element, as ‘the biggest mistake you can make with a prank show is remove the “real” 'element, which is the funniest thing.’

Published: 8 Nov 2012