Mickey Dolenz Joins Cast of Gibson/Tiffany 'Mega Python vs. Gatoroid'

TheHollywoodReporter reports that 'Mega Python vs. Gatoroid,' Syfy's Debbie Gibson/Tiffany made-for-TV movie, will add another star to its cast: Mickey Dolenz ('The Monkees,' London's HAIRSPRAY). The film is reportedly about to start production.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Debbie Gibson and '80s pop star Tiffany will star in a SyFy original movie, 'Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.' The film will be directed by Mary Lambert and written by Naomi Selfman.

Gibson will play an animal rights activist who frees snakes from pet stores, allowing them to escape to the Everglades and grow to incredible sizes. Tiffany will play a park ranger who saves alligators through dangerous methods. Gibson and Tiffany will fight at a party and in the swamps.

SyFy executive Thomas Vitale said that the film was inspired by Tiffany's desire to work with Gibson, as well as the media portrayal of the two pop stars as rivals. Vitale added, "They loved the idea of taking this perceived rivalry and having some fun with it." The film will air in 2011.

Micky Dolenz is an actor, musician, writer and director. Starting out as a child star on US television in Circus Boy, he shot to fame in the globally successful, Emmy Award winning NBC television show The Monkees. Playing a band in the show, the actors were also hugely successful as a chart group with international hits including I'm A Believer, Last Train To Clarksville and Daydream Believer. Since the band, he has guested in many television shows, provided voiceover for countless animated series and written, produced and directed for television, notably in the UK as lead producer/director on the hit children's show Metal Mickey. He has also appeared in Elton John and Tim Rice's AIDA on Broadway and on stage in the USA in Pippin, Grease and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. In the early 1980s, Dolenz directed a stage version of Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone in the West End, the cast of which included a then unknown 14-year-old Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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