Spice Girls working on a tell-all feature film aimed at cinema release

THE last time the Spice Girls were at the Cannes Film Festival it was 1997 and David Beckham hadn’t even thought about his first tattoo.

But the big buzz on the Croisette is Victoria Beckham, Mel B, Mel C, Emma Bunton and Geri Horner will be returning to the big screen, potentially in time for next year’s fest.

I’ve learned the recently reunited – but still very dysfunctional – girl group are working on a tell-all documentary feature film that would be aimed at getting a cinema release.

It’s the second big movie project they’re lining up following the animated superhero-themed epic, where they’ll voice characters, which has been pitched to potential production partners.

Meanwhile, after a meeting between Scary, Sporty and Baby in London on Thursday afternoon, I’m told the trio are pushing ahead with plans for live performances.

A September concert in London is currently being targeted, but my feeling is they’re struggle to get Posh on board for that one.

The Spice reunion has attracted major international interest, with offers incoming from Netflix and BBC, which made a sanitised TV documentary for the last reunion in 2007.

But ironically, it’s one of the ladies’ long-time enemies who has inspired the new project – a certain Liam Gallagher.

His documentary As It Was is attracting a little buzz at Cannes, given the pedigree of its director Charlie Lightening who has worked with Paul McCartney for years.

Sources close to the Spice Girls tell me they want to do something cooler and edgier for this reunion.

They’ve been watching Liam’s film project closely and have been using that as a basis for their discussions.

There’s a move towards arthouse music film features in the last two years, following the success of cinema releases on Amy Winehouse and The Beatles.

Kevin Macdonald’s long-awaited access documentary on Whitney Houston will premiere at the festival next week.

Now the critics may not have been kind to Spice World: The Movie when it was first released 21 years ago.

In fact, Victoria’s acting ended up being declared even worse than her singing (and that’s saying something).

But it will now clearly go down in pop culture history as a true cult classic, with recent screenings in London proving a sell out as Spice mania strikes again.

All I’ll say is that I do hope Victoria’s acting has improved since 1997.