He has blundered his way through four different centuries and Edmund Blackadder\u2019s fifth outing could have seen him return as a 1960s entrepreneur, writer Richard Curtis has revealed.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a special event to mark the 25th anniversary of the first Blackadder series, Curtis told how he and fellow writer Ben Elton had agreed to set the characters\u2019 next set of misadventures in the swinging Sixties if the series had continued.<\/p>\n
Rowan Atkinson\u2019s eponymous antihero slid from being an English prince to a downtrodden captain in the First World War trenches, but the new incarnation as a wealthy businessman might have represented a rebound in the social fortunes of the Blackadder family.<\/p>\n
However, Curtis revealed that one of the highlights planned for the series would have been the revelation that President Kennedy had actually been accidentally killed by Blackadder\u2019s sidekick Baldrick.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cHe was going to kill Kennedy and it would have been a mistake. We\u2019d decided on the Sixties because it was such a rich period. It was a time of dodgy entrepreneurs with their fingers in loads of pies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: Telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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