STALYBRIDGE will become the setting for an epic tale of talent overcoming trauma as a TV series of The Full Monty is being filmed.
The original cast of the 1997 film – Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Lesley Sharp, Hugo Speer, Paul Barber, Steve Huison, Wim Snape and Tom Wilkinson – is reuniting for an eight-part drama to be broadcast on Disney Plus.
And scenes are currently being shot in the Tameside town, with production vehicles at Sandhills on Huddersfield Road.
A home on Whimberry Drive in Millbrook is also being used as a backdrop for scenes, which will be broadcast across the Atlantic in the United States and Latin America.
As well as the original cast, which will also be filming in Sheffield, new cast members, including children and grandchildren of the main characters, will also feature in this The Full Monty.
The series will also explore the brighter and sillier side of life where community triumphs over adversity in the South Yorkshire city.
Announcing the show, writer and executive producer Simon Beaufoy said: “We’re chuffed to bits to get all the Monty Men back together again – now with a chaotic entourage of children, grandchildren, pets and assorted hangers-on – to see what life in Sheffield is like 25 years on.”
The Full Monty was, for a time, the highest-grossing film in the UK until it was later outsold by Titanic.
It followed a group of unemployed men in Sheffield during the 1990s as they decide to form a male striptease act in an attempt to make some money.
A release date is still to be announced but The Full Monty original series will be available on Disney+, Star+ in Latin America, and Hulu in the US.
One of my all time favorite movies! Can’t wait to see what they have all been up to. Whether good or bad the characters all became beloved members of my video family. Love them all!
My deepest apologies, I meant no disrespect….far from it….when I said good or bad I meant how their lives have gone since then….all the characters were wonderful.