Sink the sub. Hide the weasel – Mrs Doubtfire could be returning to our screens.
Moviemakers have revealed they have hundreds of hilarious out-takes and different scenes with the late comic Robin Williams, who starred as the much- loved Scots nanny.
Director Chris Columbus said he would never change the 1993 blockbuster but they made three different versions of it and the unseen footage could now become a documentary.
He said: “It was outrageously funny material.”
He said Williams, who portrayed both Daniel Hillard and his alter ego Euphegenia Doubtfire, would do “one or two, three scripted takes. And then he would say, ‘Then let me play’, doing anywhere between 15 to 22 takes”.
The film-maker added: “He would sometimes go into territory that wouldn’t be appropriate for a PG-13 movie but certainly appropriate and hilariously funny for an R-rated (15-rated) film.”
“I would be open to maybe doing a documentary about the making of the film and enabling people to see certain scenes re-edited.”
Williams played an actor who, after a bitter divorce, disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his kids.
It also starred Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan and Harvey Fierstein and earned over £375million at the box office.
Williams’ accent was inspired by Scottish director Bill Forsyth with whom he had just made the movie Being Human.
Writer Anne Fine later revealed she “nicked” the name for the Hollywood character from a bric-a-brac shop when she was a new mum living in Edinburgh in the early 70s and stumbled across a store called Madame Doubtfire in the city’s Stockbridge.
Williams was also a close friend of Billy Connolly and made regular trips to Scotland.
Only a few months before his tragic death in 2014, aged just 63, he had agreed to make a Mrs Doubtfire sequel.
Columbus added: “I’m in a good place with Mrs Doubtfire, so there’s really no reason to do the definitive cut. The definitive cut of Mrs Doubtfire is out in the world right now.”
