Top Gear trio’s final film together will be ‘quite weepy,’ says producer
Executive producer Andy Wilman was in conversation with Jane Root, the BBC Two controller who approved the Top Gear reboot in 2002.
The final outing of the Top Gear trio of Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond will be “quite weepy”, according to the executive producer behind their global success.
Andy Wilman, executive producer of The Grand Tour, Clarkson’s Farm and Top Gear, revealed during a talk at the Edinburgh TV Festival that the team will soon be releasing One For The Road – their last film together, 22 years after they first appeared in Top Gear.
Speaking to Jane Root, the BBC Two controller who approved the car show’s 2002 reboot, he said they wanted to go “unplugged” for their final outing, using “shit old cars”, which he said makes for better television than modern ones.
Wilman added that, as well as using “evocative cars they adore”, they chose to film it in Africa, which he described as “our favourite continent we’ve ever filmed in”.
“Not much happens, so anybody who thinks they’re going to get Avengers Endgame is going to be disappointed, because it is deliberately gentle,” he said.
“But their camaraderie is next level, and I think you can see it. They know that this is the last time we’ll do this, that and the other.”
