Ricky Gervais' 'The Office' Spinoff 'Life on the Road' Gets Financed
Late last year, Ricky Gervais announced he was writing a spinoff movie of his incredibly popular and multi-award winning sitcom, The Office, which will focus on its main character, David Brent.
The movie titled, Life on the Road, has been financed by Entetainment One who is partnering with BBC Films to complete the budget. Gervais will write, direct and star as Brent in the movie.
Late last year, Gervais revealed some details about the plot of the mockumentary movie; He hasn’t let go of this dream of being a rock star and he’s got a lot of songs together and he’s got a young band together that he’s paying through the nose for and they’re just sort of ripping him off. They’re sort of session musicians so he’s losing money. He has to cash in a pension, he does a little tour he wants the record companies to come along too. Obviously he thinks it’s like Scorsese following the Rolling Stones around, this documentary team, but it’s really sort of a Where Are They Now documentary and it’s even sadder and tragic… I’m trying to do like Anvil did for real. It was sort of sweet and tragic… He’s doing songs, it’s almost a musical, really.
The Office was a massive success and is one of the finest comedy series of the last 15 years. Gervais' character of embarrassing boss David Brent has lived on to become one of the best comedic characters of all time — so a movie focussed entirely on his personal life now — has the potential to be a hilarious affair.
