HandMade Films HandMade Films HandMade Films is a British film production and distribution company. Notable films from the studio include "Monty Python's Life of Brian", "Time Bandits" and "Withnail and I". HandMade Films was formed by former Beatle George Harrison and business partner Denis O'Brien in 1978 to finance the Monty Python film "Life of Brian". Harrison had first been introduced to O'Brien by actor Peter Sellers in 1973. Soon after, the two went into business together. When the original financiers of "Brian", EMI Films, pulled out of the project less than a week before filming was to commence, the creators had
Monty Python's Life of Brian Julian Doyle, the film's editor, wrote "The Life of Brian/Jesus", a book which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that it is the most accurate Biblical film ever made. In October 2008, a memoir by Kim "Howard" Johnson titled "Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian" was released. Johnson became friendly with the Pythons during the filming of "Life of Brian" and his notes and memories of the behind-the-scenes filming and make-up. With the success of Eric Idle's musical retelling of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", called "Spamalot", Idle announced that he would be