British actor Eddie Izzard has revealed that he has agreed to make a movie version of The Riches for Samuel L Jackson.

The Riches was a TV series that starred Izzard and Minnie Driver as a pair of travellers whose fortunes change one day when Izzard character Wayne Malloy assume the identity of a well of man after the real man was killed in a car crash.

Izzard has said that Jackson was desperate to see more.

Izzard said: “I was in a lift with Samuel L Jackson and he was saying, ‘What’s going to happen to your character’s kids, are they going to be okay? So it was like, ‘Right, let’s do a f***ing film’ – we’re doing it for Samuel.”

Izzard has also confessed to considering a career in politics

“I double check everything that anyone says; ‘Why are they saying that? Are they saying that because they’ve got a vested interest in this? No? They must just mean it. May be they’re crazy’.

“Sometimes I try and over complicate things. I just want to do good stuff where I can go, ‘I like that’.”