 They dismissed the idea of "a "Hard Day's Night" sort of slapstick, speeded-up film, runaround type thing" as too obvious.Slade were offered a number of suggestions for a movie screenplay, such as "Quite a Mess", a comedy reworking of "The Quatermass Experiment" where Dave Hill would be the experiment of the title, only to be killed off by a "Triffid thing" in the first fifteen minutes.Rather than producing a film portraying the band's "happy-go-lucky" image, the band accepted "Slade in Flame", as "a sort of behind-the-scenes, nitty-gritty look at the rock 'n' roll business".