Cleese Reveals 'A FISH CALLED WANDA' Musical 'Swimming' Toward Stage

While attending the Sundance Film Festival, Collider.com Editor-in-Chief Steve "Frosty" Weintraub bumped into legendary Monty Python member John Cleese while exiting a Starbucks.

Cleese revealed to Weintraub that he is working "in earnest" with his daughter Camilla on the stage musical adaptation of his classic film, "A Fish Called Wanda".

The comic legend hopes to have it finished in the next two to three years and debut it in San Diego with the hope of the production continuing on to Broadway and London's West End reports the website.

Last summer the London Telegraph is reported that John Cleese had just started on adapting his 1988 popular film 'A Fish Called Wanda' into a stage musical with his daughter.

"We've knocked the story into shape," Cleese told the Telegraph. "We're going to try a few lyrics and if it turns out we are no good - which is what I expect - we'll get a new lyricist in. Right now we're working on the story and trying to figure out where the songs should go. It's very early days, though."

The film starred Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Klein Tom Georgeson, and Michael Palin. It tells the comic story of jewel heist that goes terribly wrong. It was co-written by Cleese and Charles Crichton and was directed by Chrichton.