Monty Python's Life of Brian December 1976, with a first draft completed by mid-1977. The final pre-production draft was ready in January 1978, following "a concentrated two-week writing and water-skiing period in Barbados". The film would not have been made without Python fan former Beatle George Harrison, who set up HandMade Films to help fund it at a cost of £3 million. Harrison put up the money for it as he "wanted to see the movie" — later described by Terry Jones as the "world's most expensive cinema ticket." The original backers, EMI Films, had been scared off at the last minute by the subject
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Monty Python just 90 minutes to screw it up" (the length of "The Meaning of Life" proper is 90 minutes, but becomes 107 minutes as released with the "Short Subject Presentation", "The Crimson Permanent Assurance"). In an April 2012 re-release held by the American Film Institute, the tagline is altered to read "It took God six days to create the Heavens and the Earth, and Monty Python just 1 hour and 48 minutes to screw it up". Ireland banned the film on its original release as it had previously done with "Monty Python's Life of Brian", but later rated it