It’s not each Friday morning {that a} reliable, above board family-friendly publication begins a information story with the phrases “We’re all about to be sucked off again!” But then it is not each Friday morning that we’re capable of share the information that beloved BBC comedy collection Ghosts is getting the film therapy. Yes, after a collection of cryptic social posts from the collection’ solid and creators popped up on Wednesday, as we speak the BBC (and Mat Baynton’s Instagram) has confirmed that Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House is going on — and filming is because of get underway subsequent month!
Ghosts stars, writers, and creators Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, and Ben Willbond have penned the script for Ghosts’ first huge display screen outing, with fellow collection stars Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, and Lolly Adefope all additionally aboard for extra supernatural silliness and present common director Simon Hynd returning to helm. “We thought we had said goodbye to Button House at the end of the final series. We never planned to come back,” said the series’ creators in a joint statement accompanying the film’s announcement. “But when we had the idea for this story, we all got so excited that we couldn’t resist returning to our haunted home for one more adventure. We can’t wait to be together and to welcome some brilliant new faces, to tell this soul-stirring tale of life and death.”
In phrases of the film’s plot, all the things is being saved firmly beneath wraps in the meanwhile — although given sure components of the collection’ continuity, it’s going to be very attention-grabbing to see when precisely The Possession Of Button House takes place. We do not have a date for after we’ll be catching up with Mike, Alison, and the ghostly gang — that is Kitty, Thomas, Julian, Lady Fanny, Pat, Robin, Sir Humphrey Bone, and the Captain in case you wanted reminding — on the native multiplex simply but, however simply figuring out they will be again in our (after)lives once more is sufficient for us. A Ghosts film, although, eh? ‘Tis a good wangle, that!
