Pathe Pictures, MTV FilmsEurope and London-based Vertigo Films have teamed up to start production on Dirty Sanchez: TheMovie.

Pathe will distribute the filmin the UK and PathePictures International will handle worldwide sales.

Jim Hickey directs withBobby Allen and Vertigo's Rupert Preston serving as producers. Jonathan Zilli, Allan Niblo, James Richardson,and Sean Murphy are executive producers.

The film is adapted fromthe MTV UK series of the same name, which started airing in 2003 and has beencalled a Welsh version of Jackass.Like the TV show, the film will star Lee Dainton,Michael "Pancho" Locke, Matthew Pritchard, and DanJoyce. For the feature film, the four are given the challenge of finding andsurviving the seven deadly sins, and will make their way through England, Wales, Russia, Thailand, Japan, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

Francois Ivernel, Managing Director of Pathe UK, said, "We are delighted to continue therelationship with Vertigo which started with The Business, and to embarkon a new relationship with MTV Films Europe. Webelieve Dirty Sanchez: The Movie has hugepotential with the youth market."