Spice Girls manager confirms animated film is on the way

Demand for the band's long-anticipated reunion tour has been 'off the charts', according to Ticketmaster

Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller has revealed that an animated film about the band is currently in the works.

Speaking to Billboard, Fuller teased: “What’s coming next is that we are going to be doing lots of exciting things. We’ll be making an animated movie and there’s lots of exciting plans to come.”

The band added new dates to their long-awaited reunion tour, after demand for the initial ticket sale was “off the charts”, according to Andrew Parsons, Ticketmaster’s managing director.

“They have smashed through Ticketmaster UK’s records becoming the busiest ever sale,” Parsons said.

“There were millions of people on our site searching for tickets, with a queue at one point of well over 700,000... from what we saw, they could have played nearly every night for a year.”

Fuller said he wasn’t surprised by the massive response to the tour: “To be honest with you, while it was clearly phenomenal, they are such an awesome phenomenon I expected it.”

“The last tour we did seven or eight years ago the demand was equal, if not maybe even more. It’s a global phenomenon. They’re more timely now than ever and it’s fantastic.”

Geri Horner, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, and Emma Bunton will all return to the stage, though Victoria Beckham will not be joining them.

The Spice Girls announced on 5 November of last year that they would be reuniting on stage for the first time since 2012.

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