Rowan Atkinson has signed up to play a British sleuth in a Working Title action-comedy written by Robert Wade and Neal Purvis, the screenwriting duo behind The World is Not Enough. Film Unlimited reported the story exclusively last month. Now, it appears, the news is official.
Entitled A Touch of Weevel, the film will star the rubber-faced comic as Johnny Enlgish, a low-level British diplomat who is mistaken by a super-spy by the British authorities and subsequently becomes the unwitting lynchpin of an international conspiracy. Given its writers' James Bond baggage, the script promises to be a spoof of the 007 series, and a British answer to Austin Powers.
A Touch of Weevel will be distributed by Universal and goes before the cameras later this year. A director has yet to be confirmed.
