...with puppets

Monty Python star Terry Jones is to make a documentary film about economics.

He is co-directing Boom Bust Boom with his son Bill and Ben Timlett, who between them run the film’s production company Bill and Ben Productions.

The film, which has just been completed, covers the history of financial crashes and features a combination of live action, animation, puppetry and song.

Contributors include John Cusack, journalists Paul Mason and John Cassidy, plus leading experts including Andy Haldane, chief economist of the Bank of England.

Terry Jones says of the film, which he also co-wrote: ‘I wanted to be part of this project as soon as I discovered economics students are taught crashes just don't happen.’

The film will be shown at international festivals next year in the hope of securing a distribution deal.

Bill and Ben Productions previously made the Graham Chapman biopic A Liar’s Autobiography, and the forthcoming Absolutely Anything, also directed by Terry Jones and starring Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Robin Williams and featuring all the surviving Pythons voicing aliens.

Last week we revealed that Terry Jones was also making a documentary about Charlie Chaplin, which he spoke of at the Chortle Comedy Book Festival.

Published: 17 Nov 2014