Search results
Jun 17, 2022 · Robot is man's best friend in Brian And Charles, a delightful British comedy from Focus Features, which is currently in theaters. Directed by Jim Archer and written by its stars David Earl and Chris Hayward, the film is based on the trio's own 2017 short.
- Tatiana Hullender
- PR Coordinator
People also ask
Who are David Earl & Chris Hayward?
Who are Earl & Hayward?
Why was Chris Hayward apprehensive?
- Brian and Charles from Stage to screen
- David Earl Shows The Softer Side of Brian Gittins
- David Earl Brings His Experience as A Parent to Brian and Charles
- Chris Hayward on The Comedy of Brian and Charles
Earl and Hayward have actually been performing as these characters for several years, with the idea of Charles originating in 2013 with Earl's friend Rupert Majendie on a radio show. They would take the characters to popular live shows, having all written routines for them, and Majendie would be in the back typing Charles' dialogue into a computer,...
Brian is actually a variation of a character that Earl has played around with for nearly two decades. Brian Gittins, as he is known, is rather popular in the UK as an often wildly inappropriate, verbally inventive comedy character who has appeared in several radio series and Ricky Gervais shows like Extras and After Life, though the character is fl...
Part of this kindness and authenticity comes from the fact that Brian and Charles is largely symbolic of the process of parenting itself. Earl is a parent, and throughout this last decade of playing with the Brian and Charles characters, he's obviously seen his son grow up quite a bit. Earl movingly explains how he drew from the sometimes heartbrea...
The inherent sweetness of Brian and Charles doesn't detract from its humor one bit. For Hayward, whose character largely embodies the figure of the son, the main goal was to make Earl laugh. Hayward is a great writer who worked on the legendary early 2000s British comedy shows Big Train and Smack the Pony, and later Trollied and Cardinal Burns, but...
- Managing Editor
Jun 16, 2022 · The same can be said of David Earl and Chris Hayward, the stars and co-screenwriters behind Brian and Charles. When Brian (Earl), an ingenious but lonely inventor, decides to create a robot from junk yard parts, his creation becomes so much more than he could have ever dreamed of.
Jun 17, 2022 · ComingSoon Senior Editor Spencer Legacy spoke to Brian and Charles writers and actors David Earl, who plays Brian, and Chris Hayward, who plays Charles, about comedic timing and Charles’...
Jan 22, 2022 · Sundance 2022 Interview: Jim Archer, David Earl and Chris Hayward on Putting It All Together for the Robot Comedy “Brian and Charles”. The trio of filmmakers discuss all the parts that came together beautifully in this comedy about a friendship between a man and his robot.
David Earl & Chris Hayward are interviewed for Brian and Charles. The film is directed by Jim Archer and stars David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey. Ste...
- 12 min
- 8.3K
- HeyUGuys
Brian and Charles is a 2022 comedy drama film directed by Jim Archer, in his feature debut, from a screenplay by David Earl and Chris Hayward, who also star in the film. A feature-length adaptation of the trio's 2017 short film of the same name, Brian and Charles premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. [2]
