Cinema of the United Kingdom as Goldcrest, HandMade Films and Merchant Ivory Productions. Handmade Films, which was partly owned by George Harrison, was originally formed to take over the production of "Monty Python's Life of Brian", after EMI's Bernard Delfont (Lew Grade's brother) had pulled out. Handmade also bought and released the gangster drama "The Long Good Friday" (1980), produced by a Lew Grade subsidiary, after its original backers became cautious. Members of the Python team were involved in other comedies during the decade, including Terry Gilliam's fantasy films "Time Bandits" (1981) and "Brazil" (1985), and John Cleese's hit "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988), while
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) is a comedic oratorio based on "Monty Python's Life of Brian". It was written by Python Eric Idle and collaborator John Du Prez, and commissioned by the Luminato festival. With the success of "Spamalot", Eric Idle's musical retelling of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", Idle announced that he was giving "Monty Python's Life of Brian" a similar treatment. The oratorio, called "Not the Messiah", was commissioned to be part of the Luminato arts festival in June 2007. It was written and scored by