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Chris Morris explained that [[Jesse Armstrong]] and [[Sam Bain]] were brought into the project as "experts in the school of male psychology, plus they have technical expertise and experience of comedy dialogue."<ref name="vice1">{{cite news |last1=Wray |first1=Daniel Dylan |title='I Was Told It Was Career Suicide' – The Oral History of 'Four Lions' |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/889dqa/four-lions-making-of-oral-history-trivia |access-date=28 February 2022 |work=Vice |date=30 July 2020}}</ref> Armstrong and Bain provided the first script, which Morris subsequently rewrote and edited.<ref name="vice1"/>

 

 

Morris suggested in a mass email, titled "Funding Mentalism", that fans could contribute between £25 and £100 each to the production costs of the film and would appear as extras in return.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/00535-new-chris-morris-project|title=Chris Morris announces Jihad Film / Needs money|publisher=[[The Quietus]]|first=David|last=Moats|date=13 October 2008|access-date=26 July 2009}}</ref> Funding was secured in October 2008 from [[Film4 Productions|Film 4 Productions]] and [[Warp Films]], with [[Derrin Schlesinger]] & [[Mark Herbert]] producing. Filming began in [[Sheffield]] in May 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=479391&page=2|title=Chris Morris directing something on The Moor this lunch|publisher=Sheffield Forums|access-date=26 July 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/07/17/set-shot-from-chris-morris-four-lions/|title=Set Shot From Chris Morris' Four Lions|date=17 July 2009 |publisher=Bleeding Cool|access-date=26 July 2009}}</ref>