Bula Quo!, also known as Guitars, Guns and Paradise,[1] is a 2013 British adventure comedy film cowritten and directed by Stuart St Paul and starring Jon Lovitz, Craig Fairbrass, Laura Aikman and Status Quo musicians Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt.
The film was expressly made to work as a tax deductible write-off[failed verification] for the band Status Quo, and the shooting budget was part of what was owed to the UK taxman.
[3] Several other (technically) British films released at the time were made using this same tax incentives, including Hitchcock (2012) and Cleanskin (2012).
was a box-office disaster at the time of its release, and received mostly negative reviews from critics.
The film is set in the Pacific island country of Fiji and tells the story of rock band Status Quo becoming entangled in a local mafia operation.