Last Year Yoo Capital set out its £1 billion masterplan to provide a Camden Film Quarter in Regis Road, creating film and television studios and education and training facilities.
Partners Oxygen Studios, which has worked with production houses including Marvel and Warner brothers, told the Ham&High they would be “creating our own UK version of Hollywood”.
After a fundraising evening in support of the Queens Crescent Community Association (QCCA) on Monday night (April 14), the Ham & High asked Palin what he thought of the plans.
The long-time Gospel Oak resident mentioned plans for a cinema in a former Pizza Express building on Prince of Wales Road several years ago, adding: “Kentish Town Pizza Express closed down, a long came people who were going to make a cinema in Kentish Town. In the end nothing happened.
“Much as I would like to see a film quarter, it’s a promise and it’s an idea and it’s an attractive idea as people say ‘we would love to see Hollywood stars round here’.
“I think Hollywood films are best sited outside London, places like Pinewood.”
The comedian and writer was a member of the Monty Python team in the 1960s and 70s, which made several series as well as films Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983).
He also starred in A Fish Called Wanda, Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, and The Missionary and most recently the black comedy The Death of Stalin.
He added: “Central London, make films, yeah, let’s make local films, let make British films, let’s make European films. We don’t want another Hollywood studio to be honest.”
