British comic heads to LA

British comic Phoebe Walsh has joined the writing team of the Four Weddings And A Funeral remake.

The comic, formerly part of the Oyster Eyes sketch troupe who made her solo Edinburgh debut last year, is to move to Los Angeles to work on the project

Mindy Kaling, of The Office and The Mindy Project, is rebooting the 1994 film as a TV series for US streaming service Hulu. It now features an African-American woman and a British-Pakistani man as the leads.

Last month, Kaling pointed out that her version ’is not an adaptation telling the same story’ but a different take on the concept of friends whose lives intersect through five major events.

 Richard Curtis, who wrote the original film starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, will executive produce the adaptation.

Kaling said: ‘What I love about the movie is the rapport between the friends, the Richard Curtis tone, the relatability of weddings, and seeing the heartbreak of one of the friends dying and the group rally for each other.’

Although the writing team is based in Los Angeles, the series will be shot in London.

Published: 3 Jul 2018