With all the over-complicated narratives in much of today’s Hollywood output, it’s refreshing when a film can surrender to the basics and still manage to delight. Such is the case with Michael Winterbottom‘s The Trip series. Made for television in the U.K. then released as films over here, they simply find Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on an adventure at a certain locale, eating food and doing many, many impressions.
The next one on the docket, which shot over the summer, is The Trip to Spain. While it still hasn’t been announced when it will arrive here in the United States, Sky Atlantic have released the first clip ahead of their summer premiere broadcast. Finding Coogan and Brydon doing their best Mick Jagger impression, it’s nice to have this duo back and they seem to be in top form.
“The way we work is similar in all three films; they’re all road movies that center around food, but the content in itself is obviously different. In the Italian film, Steven and Rob talk non-stop about food and Lord Byron and Mary Shelley’s trips to Italy – what is sacred to a lover of English literature,” Winterbottom tells El Pais. “In Spain, they also talk incessantly about food… and Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.”
Check out the clip below.
The Trip to Spain will arrive in 2017.