One of Britain’s best-loved sitcoms is coming to the big screen, with an all-new cast stuffed with south London, Kent and Surrey stars.
BAFTA winning director Oliver Parker is in charge of the cast of the Second World War comedy about the hapless Home Guard troop of Walmington-on-Sea.
A teaser poster for the film, due out February 5, has just been released.
Toby Jones, from Hammersmith, takes on the iconic role of Captain Mainwaring while Caterham’s Bill Nighy is Wilson.
Michael Gambon, who was raised in Crayford and lives in Meopham, will play Godfrey.
Greenwich-born BRIT school alumnus and Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison has been cast as Pike.
The stellar cast also includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alison Steadman and Mark Gatiss.
It is set in 1944 with the Allies poised to invade France. Morale is low at Walmington-on-Sea’s Home Guard and their new mission to patrol the Dover Army base goes well until Zeta-Jones’ glamorous journalist arrives and starts setting pulses racing.
When MI5 discover a radio signal from Berlin to Walmington-on-Sea, suddenly it seems there’s a spy on the loose and it’s up to the Home Guard to stand up and be counted with the outcome of the war potentially at stake.
Dad's Army is out February 5, 2016.
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