LONDON (Reuters) – The tale of Britain’s two most famous pigs, who saved their bacon by escaping from a slaughter house, is to be made into a film, the BBC said Tuesday.
The ginger-haired pigs, dubbed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Pig after the Wild West outlaws, spent a week on the run in January 1998.
Their adventures captured the public imagination and sparked a frenzied search for them involving TV crews and journalists from around the world.
“The film tells how the story of Butch and Sundance became a legend,” said executive producer Sally Woodward.
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Glad to see Britain still has heroes to look up to.
In the French version: The pigs are replaced by cheese-eating surrender monkeys.