Always on
This project successfully funded on 8th September 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
This project successfully funded on 8th September 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
The aim is to show this film as an accompaniment to Will Sellers documentary ‘A Comic State Of Ectasy, and to show at festivals.
David Boyle along with writer Callum Hale and Peter Sellers’s grandson Will Sellers have come up with a funny and surreal story of what might’ve happened to Sellers after his final heart attack.
Peter Sellers suffers his last heart attack and
finds himself in a limbo of purgatory where he
is confronted by the characters he played…
and he goes on a trail to discover who he really
is, the man behind the mask - and in doing so
discovers the source of his neurosis.
Sellers worked in so many different genres and
I want to reflect that in the design and visual
style of each film character as he meets them.
This would mean shooting in different formats
and very specific lens choices - ie
4x3 B/W for Percy Quill and the Goons,
16x9 B/W for Dr Strangelove
Widescreen Colour for Inspector Clouseau16mm and Super 8 for the scenes with his
mother, as a nod to Sellers’ home-movie
obsession.
Using digital FX we can easily reproduce these
formats and move seamlessly between them
as Sellers meets himself as each character.
David Boyle will be playing Sellers and all his
characters so we will use practical doubles and
multiple shooting to create the illusion that they
are in the same scene and frame.
The visual effect will be surreal and very
cinematic, evoking Orson Welles version of
Kafka’s The Trial, the knockabout style of the
Telegoons, and the sublime big screen visual
comedy of Blake Edwards’ The Pink Panther.
The final scenes will emulate the cool control
and composition of Hal Ashby’s Being There as
Sellers/Chance sets out across the lake into
the afterlife.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made