Hi, all\u2026 With the Bean sequel opening in the UK this weekend, there\u2019s been lots of the usual puff stories in the British press concerning Rowan Atkinson. The only new Blackadder tidbit is in today\u2019s edition of the Sun. Atkinson brings up BA at one point, which I quote in full: \u201cHe says: \u201cThere was a plan for a film set in the Russian revolution, a very interesting one called The Red Adder. He would have been a lieutenant in the Secret Police. \u201cThen the revolution happened and at the end he is in the same office doing the same job but just the colours on his uniform have changed. \u201cIt was quite a sweet idea and we got quite a long way with it but in the end it died a death.\u201d The success of Blackadder and the affection with which the series is held gives Rowan just as much satisfaction as the worldwide success of Mr Bean. He adds: \u201cI have been amazed that Blackadder has stayed in the public consciousness even though it is years since we finished making it. And I think it will continue to do so. I get equal satisfaction from the show and Mr Bean.\u201d To my knowledge, this is the first time we\u2019ve been given the title of Ben Elton\u2019s idea for a film set during the Russian Revolution. I wish RA had mentioned the Colditz\/WWII idea as well. I\u2019ve been wondering for ages what they\u2019d intended to call that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi, all\u2026 With the Bean sequel opening in the UK this weekend, there\u2019s been lots of the usual puff stories in the British press concerning Rowan Atkinson. The only new Blackadder tidbit is in today\u2019s edition of the Sun. Atkinson brings up BA at one point, which I quote in full: \u201cHe says: \u201cThere was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54TBn-8F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1547,"url":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?p=1547","url_meta":{"origin":537,"position":0},"title":"Rowan Atkinson reveals details of \u201cRedadder\u201d","author":"admin","date":"8 April 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The RedAdder, or Red Adder storyline is nothing new to those of us who have been fans of the series for longer than we can remember; It's been mentioned on here in the 20+ years I've been running the website. 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