John Cleese says new Fawlty Towers series will be ‘hugely different’ to the original

MONTY Python star John Cleese has said the re-root of Fawlty Towers will be nothing at all like the original.

In an exclusive interview with Camilla Tominey on GB News, he said: “It is going to be hugely different. My daughter and I have been working on it for about a week, and all we know is it certainly won’t be set in the UK, it will probably be set somewhere in the sun.

“Not in a big city, but somewhere out in the sun with a lot of open air stuff which we never got in Fawlty Towers, but we’ve only just started to think about it, because I’m also working on the stage version of Life Of Brian, we’re working on a musical of A Fish Called Wanda.

“My daughter and I have written a very good comedy about Hollywood lookalikes and they’re going to be played by the originals, so Arnold Schwarzenegger will play his own lookalike, so there’s plenty going on.”

On the new Fawlty Towers, he continued: “It going to be very different because if it’s in the Caribbean, it will be a multicultural cast which will be very interesting. And my daughter Camilla will be playing the woman who’s running the hotel.

“So there will be nothing visually or in terms of characters that anyone’s ever seen before, it will be a brand new attempt.

“There’s no attempt to copy it, you’ll see something completely different. I think it will probably be quite funny. Probably funnier than some of the stuff out there.

“So the fact that it won’t be as good as Fawlty Towers doesn’t bother me, because if we were operating on that principle, I should have done Fawlty Towers and then retired.”