Cruise of the Gods

Cruise of the Gods
Written by	Tim Firth Michael Marshall Smith Peter Baynham
Directed by	Declan Lowney
Starring	Rob Brydon Steve Coogan David Walliams James Corden
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Running time	90 mins
Production company	Baby Cow Productions
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	23 December 2002 (2002-12-23)
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Cruise of the Gods is a 2002 British made-for-television comedy-drama film produced by Baby Cow Productions for the BBC. It starred Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, David Walliams and James Corden. It was broadcast in 2002 and has since been released on BBC DVD.

Written by Tim Firth, with additional material by Michael Marshall Smith and Peter Baynham, it told the story of a fan cruise held in honour of The Children of Castor, a fictitious 1980s post-apocalyptic sci-fi TV series, starring Andy Van Allen (Brydon) and Nick Lee (Coogan). Twenty years after the show's cancellation, Van Allen is the reluctant special guest on the fan cruise. For Van Allen, The Children of Castor was the height of his fame, whilst Lee went on to bigger and better things, currently Sherlock Holmes in Miami.

Russell Brand also had a part in the drama but during filming clashed with Brydon, Coogan and Walliams in a variety of 'drug induced' incidents. This included leaving the ship and heading to a strip bar where Brand "masturbated three times." After this incident that Brand was asked to leave the filming and is said to be the trigger behind him heading to rehab. Brand noted this incident when appearing on Annually Retentive, Rob Brydon's spoof quiz show. Brand does briefly appear in the show. Brian Conley and Jack Jones made cameo appearances as themselves.

Remake

Plans for a film based on the television show, titled The Great Beyond, were announced in 2010, with David Guion and Michael Handelman attached to the project to write and direct the film. These did not eventuate.

External links

• Cruise of the Gods at IMDb