Finally, someone has picked up the marionette farce gauntlet thrown down by Team America! Prepare yourself for the riotous awesomeness that is Jackboots on Whitehall. Check out the stupendous trailer below followed by the press release with all the details on the upcoming DVD, schedule for release on July 26. Keep checking Pop Culture Zoo as we will have some great clips from this film over the next few weeks as well as some goodies from Comic-Con!
Today’s top actors from England and Scotland get together and voice the hilarious new spoof on World War II, JACKBOOTS ON WHITEHALL – made with the latest technology from the U.K.’s own puppetry filmmaking technique, supermarionation. England’s Digital Spy calls JACKBOOTS ON WHITEHALL “Team America crashing headfirst into Inglourious Basterds.”
On July 26, New Video’s Flatiron Film Company will boldly release this World War II farce for the first time in the U.S. across cable VOD, digital platforms and DVD.
World War II: What if Nazis seized London and all of England had to band together? When scarily campy Nazi leaders invade by drilling under the English Channel and up through the cobblestones on Whitehall, Churchill leaves his quiet retirement with a cat that looks like Hitler to issue a call to arms from his bunker under Downing Street. Chris, a young farm worker with large hands, rallies the village to fight the good fight – including an alcoholic Vicar, the oldest man in the town, several idiots, a random Frenchman and Bobby Fiske, a swearing American who believes he’s battling Russia.
“At times brilliant satire, at others simply silly fun.”-IndieWire
“Truly stellar work on the technical end…a cult hit in the making.”-Twitch Film
This comedic feature film debut from Scottish brothers Edward and Rory McHenry, has an all-star cast of voices including Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting/Star Wars Trilogy), Alan Cumming (X2/The Good Wife), Stephen Merchant (The Office), Dominic West (The Wire/300), Rosamund Pike (Die Another Day/An Education), Tom Wilkinson (The Green Hornet/Michael Clayton), Timothy Spall (The King’s Speech/Harry Potter), and Richard E. Grant (Prêt à Porter/Gosford Park), among others.
Produced by Karl Richards of U.K. production outfit, Entertainment Motion Pictures (E-Motion), the film boasts pioneering techniques in animation, fusing innovative puppeteering animatronics developed by Rory McHenry and visual effects by MFX London. Executive Producers are Nigel Thomas and Charlotte Walls of Matador Pictures.
DVD FEATURES:
Behind-the-Scenes footage; Interviews with the Creators; Featurettes: The Swastikas, Bad Day to be a Nazi, Hitler’s Rat Pack, The Nazi Hotties, Explosions, Voiceovers; Theatrical Trailer.
