Unfinished movie
According to screenwriter Stephen Fry, Gossip was a film intended to "capture a new and horrible side to Thatcher's Britain: the recently confident, arrogant, vulgar, Sloaney world in which night-club narcissists, trust-fund trash and philistine druggie aristos cavorted with recently cherished icons of finance, fashion and celebrity."
The Tolkin brothers' version of the script was rejected by Universal Studios, for being too "arty and European".
Among the cast for the unfinished film was a young Gary Oldman. The film was intended as the screen debut of the theatrical actor.
Director Don Boyd's financial liabilities for the unfinished film stood at £1,162,000. This caused him years of financial problems, and his production company went into receivership in 1991.