Terry Jones on ‘Eric the Pirate’

Monty Python member Terry Jones (Feb. 1942 - Jan. 2020) went on to write and direct ‘Eric the Pirate” Along with the film’s producer John Goldstone, in this 1989 interview Jones talks about twists and turns about making a 15 million dollar movie in 10 weeks, the pressure from Japanese financial backers to include a Japanese actor, and how in Monty Python is was impossible to tell a story because someone would always be sending the narrative off in a new director.  Variety wrote of ‘Eric the Pirate’ "The idea of telling the story of a Viking warrior who thought there must be more to life than rape and pillage is an amusing one", but  Roger Ebert wrote called it "An utterly worthless exercise in waste and wretched excess."