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British comedian and actor Rowan Atkinson is apparently keen on filming a big-screen adaptation of the cult British TV comedy 'Blackadder', in which he starred as Lord Blackadder.

According to contactmusic.com, the film is in the production pipeline, 17 years after the final episode of the TV show aired in the United Kingdom, with screenwriter Ben Elton is intent on setting the adaptation during the Russian Revolution.

The TV comedy featured a stellar cast including Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Tony Robinson and Hugh Laurie and rapidly became a cult classic throughout Britain, despite the fact that it has been out of the spotlight for almost two decades.

Fry, who played the role of Lord Melchett in the show, said, "I chatted to Rowan at the weekend. He's been doing a 'Bean' movie in France and confided that he missed the joys of Blackadder rehearsals and all that.

"Ben wants to do a Blackadder movie set in the Russian Revolution with a Russian branch of the family. He has some brilliant ideas. Maybe it will happen.

"(But) there's a lot of feeling that we left it on such a high note that it would be a bad idea to go back. There's nothing worse than an overweight boxer past his prime lumbering into the ring past his sell-by date">