Monday 13 September 1999 – EXCITE
\nBlackadder\u2019s sidekick Baldrick, best known for his creativity with turnips, proves he can be even more imaginative by building a time machine.<\/p>\n
The bumbling man-servant – played by Tony Robinson – builds a copy from Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s designs in the new film Blackadder Back And Forth.<\/p>\n
The film, in which the comic pair travel through the ages, can be seen by visitors to the Millennium Dome from January 1, 2000.<\/p>\n
Rowan Atkinson stars as dapper Sir Edmund Blackadder, seen outside the gates of Blackadder Hall in his velveteen smoking jacket, who joins Baldrick for their time travels.<\/p>\n
Atkinson and Robinson starred in four series of the BBC comedy Blackadder and were last united in Blackadder Goes Forth, shown a decade ago this month.
\nBaldrick, noted for his \u201ccunning plans\u201d but limited intelligence, finds he actually does something right by building a machine that works.<\/p>\n
But the controls of his craft prove difficult to manage and they spin through history randomly, causing chaos.<\/p>\n
Atkinson said: \u201cBringing Blackadder to the big screen has always been an ambition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am delighted to be realising it to celebrate the arrival of the 21st Century, but extremely worried at the prospect of travelling through time with Baldrick.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film has been co-written by comic Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, who scripted the biggest grossing British movies of all time, Notting Hill and Four Weddings And A Funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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