British writer and TV stalwart Jack Rooke has teased that a “fun comedy drama” about iconic British girl band The Spice Girls is in the works.
Speaking with BBC Sounds’ Sidetracked, Rooke teased that something has been worked on between himself and several others.
But it sounds more like something being pitched rather than something set for production. Rooke explained that the girl group was the first time he saw “working-class women be ambitious in British pop culture”.
He also made comparisons to Sam Mendes’ upcoming four-film take on The Beatles. Of the Spice Girls project:
“I don’t know how much I can say, but yes, I have been developing something that is, I would say, more than a music biopic. It’s like a sort of fun comedy drama.
So, there has been a script written with me and a lovely little group of gals and gays. But that’s all I can say, and we don’t know what’s going on with it. Maybe one day, if people would like to watch that, that would be amazing.
I’m like, if we’re gonna have these four films about the Beatles, then I do think we need a big comedy romp about the Spice Girls, but that is me. I’ve said too much. But that would be my dream and desire.”
Rooke most famously created “Big Boys,” a semi-autobiographical sitcom about a university student and his friends who live together, starring the likes of Dylan Llewellyn, Camille Coduri and Robert Gilbert.
Exploring gay-straight male friendship and male mental health (especially in teens/20-somethings), it scored high acclaim, with the final run pulling in an astonishing 100% (8.8/10) review score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Spice Girls marked the 30th anniversary of their debut album Spice last week. They previously came to the screen with the 1997 musical comedy “Spice World” (pictured above).
