The Harry Hill Movie

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Source: Empire

Those distant cheers and strange scraping sounds you may be able to hear are Harry Hill's army of fans celebrating news that the big-shoed bad boy is coming to the big screen. Oh, and the scraping? That's the badger kingdom logging on for tickets.

The Harry Hill Movie, which promises to bring "his madcap comedy world to the big screen", kicks off on May 8 with eight weeks' worth of shooting around the UK.

The plot will be fuelled by Hill's sick hamster. The NHS-spec'ed japster must get it to a vet in Blackpool before the clock winds down on the bewhiskered buddy - presumably forcing someone to operate at gunpoint a la James Caan in A Bridge Too Far when he gets there. Okay, perhaps not, but the roadtrip will definitely be complicated by the presence of Hill's gas-guzzling grannie (Julie Walters) and the lunatic vet (Simon Bird) in hot pursuit.

“I’m thrilled at last to be able to tell the world the true story of my hamster’s struggle on the big screen", explains Hill, "and even more excited to be working with some of the comedy greats of the British film industry.”

Those greats include Walters, Inbetweener Bird, Jim Broadbent, Matt Lucas, Gavin And Stacey's Sheridan Smith and Julian 'Mighty Boosh' Barratt. League Of Gentleman and Mr. Bean’s Holiday helmer Steve Bendelack is overseeing things behind the camera with a view to a late 2013 release.

Don't really know which way this'll go (probably bad) but at least we'll finally be able to add Blackpool, my home town, to the cinematic archives.