Skins Film Announced, A New Low Reached In Cinema
Omg! Lolz!!1!!1! If you’re a 12-year-old with a deluded view on what teenage life is like, that will probably be your reaction.
However if, like us, you live in the real world, you’ll no doubt be banging your head against the nearest blunt object.
Skins can only be described as the Daily Mail’s worst nightmare, since the show takes us into the supposed world of a teenager’s life. It wouldn’t make for good viewing if the characters all had study groups, helped the elderly and grew their own organic vegetables. Instead, it’s filled with boozing, shagging, crying and drug taking. Usually confined to E4, it might now bother you on the big screen.
Forget your popcorn and cola when the film eventually dumps itself in the cinema, you’ll be talking poppers and cocaine instead! Cinema workers’ lives will be made ten times harder as they deal with kids snorting drugs off sticky carpets and then tripping out and licking strangers’ eyeballs.
On TV, Skins has been successful and has recently finished its third outing. It could have been a potential tits-up in the making as producers decided to sack the original cast that established the show. Why, we’re not overly sure but it did seem a bit obvious seeing that the characters were all buggering off to university or taking up a life of prostitution.
With series three, we were introduced to a cast of characters who were just as diverse and strange as the ones they followed. We saw lesbianism, virginity-stealing, house parties spiralling out of control, shagging, girly violence, more shagging and plenty of pills being swallowed. Or MDMA put in to cakemix.
How a one-off Skins film will work is unclear at this point. Usually, all of the plotlines are all interlinked but share the same love for snorting something or getting a shandy at the pub. Perhaps for 90 minutes the two casts will be reunited and they’ll sit in a field getting wasted.
Of course, due to everyone being pretty spaced out, the characters may start to have their minds opened up. They question the theories written by Stephen Hawking, rewrite Einstein’s law of relativity and start to draw up blueprints on how to build a flying car. But of course, we don’t know that. Actually, we know bugger all about anything related to a Skins film. All we have is The Guradian’s quote sparking fear into us that the thing might actually happen:
“The broadcaster said that Film4 and Company Pictures, the independent producer that makes the show, were in “preliminary talks” about a big screen spin-off.”
Who knows, they could make it really weird by getting Dev Patel in it. Because he’s a technical Oscar winner now, he could arrive back in Bristol where Skins is set and start harping on about being all successful.
Or probably not.
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I know people in their 20s that like Skins. Their 20s!
Still, there’s enough self-important inane bloody nonsense in the cinemas at the moment that I’m pretty sure this post is the first and last time I’ll hear of this.
however it does allow the sale of persil to teenagers for magnificant profits.
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This sounds awesome. I hope it happens.
Wow. I’ve been in my 20’s -almost 3 times now-and I like Skins. So what? How will I know what the kids are up to if I do keep up myself? I also watch the video channels on occasion. Kanye is an arrogant git. SouthPark is my friend. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy Shakespeare. And I’d love to have Patel back. He’s very talented.
I love Skins! It’s a much more accurate portrayal of teenage life than most supposedly “teenage” programmes on tv are; yes, it’s exaggerated, for entertainment’s sake, but so is just about everything on tv!
I’m still not sure about the film idea though…it could be really good, or it could be a disaster, especially if they have to make it more mainstream to appeal to a wider audience…
But I love Skins! And also, the majority of teenagers aren’t stupid enough to copy everything they see on TV…
Yeahh man shut the fuck up!
I don’t see the need to over exaggerate the idea of a skins film being the end of the world. Kids don’t watch it beacuse it’s about pill popping teenagers they aspire to be, but because it’s story lines are interesting and unigue.
As far as I know “lesbianism”, shagging and house parties aren’t abnormal experiences, and play a big part in a lot of your average teenager’s lives which they can relate to.
omfg ! please make a skins film , xD its the best show on earth in my openion , and yeah im 18 and i can relate to skins ,i love being a teenager Ha !! i hope the film is not to mainstream tho i guess , it should b as the season 1 and 2 ,… not so much 3 but its still good xD … ihope maxxi is in it =] \../