Richard set for Rocky return

Luke Leitch10 April 2012

It's timewarp time again - Richard O'Brien is on the verge of finishing a sequel to the The Rocky Horror Show 29 years after his original made millions around the world doing the Time Warp.

O'Brien, who penned the the high-camp schlock opera as a struggling actor, said: "It will probably be called Rocky Horror: The Resurrection - something of that nature."

In the sequel, the action takes place nine months on from the original, when Janet is about to give birth to Doctor Frank N Furter's child.

Although O'Brien, 60, is playing The Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Palladium, he will not reclaim the role of Riff Raff. "I'm too old for it now," he said.

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