Numerous well-known faces together with Kim Kardashian, Olivia Colman and Greta Thunberg are starring in a brand new comedy collection, however it’s not really them.
As a substitute, they’ve been recreated on display utilizing Deep Pretend know-how, which has turned impressionists into a few of the world’s most well-known celebrities.
Deep Pretend Neighbour Wars will likely be launched on ITVX early subsequent 12 months, and an early look has been given on the ground-breaking present.
The 30-second preview begins with Olivia and Jay-Z sitting subsequent to one another on a sofa, earlier than the rapper says: ‘Expertise, unimaginable’, and a bunch of celebrities are seen within the suburbs.
Idris Elba is posing exterior his residence, Kim seems to be like a council employee in a high-vis vest, Tom Holland and Nicki Minaj are sporting matching pink velour tracksuits, Adele seems to be a schoolteacher and Stormzy appears able to ship mail.
The comedy impressions collection, which can comprise of six 30-minute episodes, would be the world’s first kind narrative present that makes use of Deep Pretend know-how.
However as an alternative of following the lives of the wealthy and well-known, they’re now atypical individuals who occur to be embroiled in petty foolish neighbour disputes.
Quite than taking part in a superhero and being liked up with Zendaya, Tom has shacked up with Nicki.
However there’s hassle in paradise as a result of there next-door neighbour Mark Zuckerberg isn’t making life straightforward.
Elsewhere, Idris will get a shock when new neighbour Kim begins making her presence recognized of their communal backyard, Harry Kane’s excellent patio is broken by upstairs neighbour Stormzy and Dental Hygienist Billie Eilish clashes with neighbour Beyonce when she begins working from residence.
The preview additionally confirmed that Greta seems to be like she’s a teen mum who lives in Southend-on-Sea, Rihanna can be away from the intense lights, Ariana Grande and Conor McGregor is likely to be married, Harry is taking part in it up for the cameras and Chris Rock is making an attempt to beef up.
It ends with Matthew McConaughey having fun with the sunshine, sitting in his backyard, earlier than uttering his catchphrase ‘Alright, Alright, Alright…now we’re having enjoyable’.
Created by Spencer Jones (Mister Winner, The Thoughts of Herbert Clunkerdunk), and written alongside two of this 12 months’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees Jordan Grey and Josh Pugh, the collection additionally stars impressionists and comedians together with Katia Kvinge, Al Foran and Scheiffer Bates.
ITV’s Head of Comedy Nana Hughes mentioned that the present’s visuals ‘will fascinate, the world will titillate and the impressions will fixate’.
‘It’s massively thrilling to deliver AI know-how to fairly actually change the face of comedy on ITVX.’
Deep Pretend Neighbour Wars will stream on ITVX in January.
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