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 & the Quest for the Holy Grail and complete the missing planks on the bridge of death. Global sales of "Holy Grail", "Complete Waste of Time" and "Desktop Pythonizer" surpassed 650,000 copies by November 1997, which accounted for revenues above $15 million at 7th Level. A "Next Generation" critic said "Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail" "lacks any semblance of decent gameplay". He elaborated that since there is no indicator of where the hot spots are, the gameplay consists of little more than blindly clicking everywhere on the screen to see what happens. Despite this, he said that enthusiasts of the film would probably