Hitler is Cumming while Churchill has only got one Spall

WWII comedy 'Jackboots on Whitehall' features the vocal talents of Ewan McGregor, Alan Cumming and Tim Spall.

Jan 17 2007

Edward McHenry's 'Team America'-style WWII spoof 'Jackboots on Whitehall' is set to go into production with an all-star cast providing voices.

The comedy adventure, which imagines a world in which the Germans won the Battle of Britain before being defeated by the Scots, stars Ewan McGregor as a farmhand who leads the Celts to victory.

And the rest of the vocal cast is a veritable who's who of British acting talent, with Timothy Spall playing Churchill, Alan Cumming doing Hitler, Tom Wilkinson voicing Goebbels, Richard O'Brien channelling Himmler and Richard Griffiths having a go at Goering.

Speaking of the project, producer Frank Mannion said: 'It seems appropriate on the 300th anniversary of the union between England and Scotland, to be making a film that subverts and rewrites British history.'

He continued 'We are using specially made action figures, and purpose-built models of Hadrian's Wall, Downing Street and Buckingham Palace' adding that it will be like 'Team America: World Police' in style and tone, 'but with no strings attached!'

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