Dad's Army film: Michael Gambon and Bill Nighy to lead all-star cast

 
Old favourite: 1970's comedy Dad's Army
Robin de Peyer8 October 2014

Bill Nighy and Michael Gambon lead a star-studded cast set to appear in a cinema re-make of classic TV sitcom Dad's Army.

Toby Jones will play the unintentionally hilarious Captain Mainwaring and Sir Tom Courtenay will appear as Corporal Jones.

Harry Potter star Michael Gambon is to feature as Private Godfrey and Bill Nighy will play Sergeant Wilson - the brains in the veteran platoon.

Other stars set to feature in the feature-length film version of the show - which achieved acclaim as it followed a hapless World War II Home Guard group - include Catherine Zeta-Jones and Mark Gatiss.

Starring role: Michael Gambon is set to play Godfrey in the army drama

Nine series of the show ran between 1968 and 1977, and it is widely considered one of the best comedy British sitcoms ever made.

To add a dose of on-screen glamour, Zeta-Jones is due to play a journalist sent to report on the Home Guard in fictional British town Walmington-on-Sea.

But in the film, directed by Olver Parker, MI5 soon discover a German spy is operating there prompting a security scare.

The film's script is to be written by Hamish McColl and shooting is due to begin in Yorkshire later this month.

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