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CLASSIC BBC comedy Dad's Army is set to be revived as a feature film.

BBC classic Dad's Army will be made into a feature film[BBC]

The TV show, which follows the lives of members of a Home guard unit during the Second World War, is set to be remade 50 years after it was first broadcats and will star veteran actors Bill Nighy and Toby Jones.
Bill, who has starred in films such as Love Actually and Pirates of The Caribbean, will play Sergeant Wilson while Toby will take on the role of self-important bank manager Captain Mainwaring.
In the television version - which attracted 18million viewers at its height - Mainwaring was played by Arthur Lowe while John Le Mesurier played Wilson - both of whom died in the 80s.

The TV show attracted 18million viewers at its peak [BBC]

Bill Nighy will play Sergeant Wilson in the upcoming big screen adaptation [GETTY]

Dad’s Army spawned a series of catchphrases – including Captain Mainwaring’s put-down ‘you stupid boy!’  and the order uttered by Corporal Jones to his hapless colleagues whenever things began to go spectacularly wrong: ‘Don’t panic!’
The show was set in the fictional town of Walmington-on Sea and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.
Stuart Wright, chairman of the Dad's Army Museum in Thetford, Norfolk, where much of the series was shot, who is also the town's mayor, said today: "We welcome anything which raises awareness of Dad's Army, and its Thetford links.

Toby Jones will take on the role of self-important bank manager Captain Mainwaring [GETTY]

However we hope they do justice to what is a national institution, and that it will not be like some remakes which have not worked.
"The shows are being repeated on television and the audience figures are good. We had 10,000 visitors last year and they come from all over the country and as far afield as Australia, Canada and Holland, so the programme is a national treasure."