BY VINCENT GODWIN
Russell Brand’s ‘A Second Coming’ flopped at the box office, only making an embarrassing £420
The controversial actor and comedian experienced his first major flop after his documentary ‘Brand: A Second Coming’ was kicked out of cinema
The 40-year-old Grays born actor, comedian and former host of Big Brother’s Big Mouth, experienced his first major career flop as the film on his life was kicked out of the cinemas.The documentary, directed by award-winning Ondi Timoner, screened at just one cinema in London where only 23 people paid to see it. This was a major blow to the aim of the objectives that the documentary intended to achieve.
Just before before the film’s public release 2 months ago, Russell pulled his support for the movie because he didn’t like how the final edit portrayed him.
According to the director, who was also a friend, of the outspoken comedian, he became a control freak when she refused to remove a number of scenes from the documentary.
The actor-turned-activist who was involved in the November 5th anonymous march in London, demanded she edit out footage of him being arrested while high on drugs and naked at a protest, as well as him discussing torturing a family dog.
But the director refused and insisted on reflecting the full picture to the public. There had previously been five other directors that had been appointed for the job but had eventually been refused
Brand who is a strong advocate of the Labour party, is known for being outspoken against the British Monarchy and has also derided The Sun newspaper in many of his controversial speach’s. He had set a you tube channel called The Trews which had over 2 million followers, not long ago he announced he was going to close it down.
