Ricky Gervais to Film The Office Movie

Nearly 11 years after it ended, Ricky Gervais announced that he and the BBC would turn The Office into a feature film.

The Office, which Gervais created and starred in, became an international phenomenon/cash cow, turning Gervais into a comedy star and launching the career of Steve Carell in the US remake. The film follows the life of Gervais’s awkward boss David Brent, fifteen years after his job at a boring paper company, and charts his quest to become a self-funded rock star. “He’s a sales rep now, selling cleaning products up and down the country, but has never really give up on his dream of being a rock star,” a press release states, adding that they’ll be keeping the mockumentary format:

“He thinks it’ll be like [Martin] Scorsese filming The Rolling Stones, but it turns out to be a ‘where are they now’ documentary. He has to take a few weeks off work and cash in a couple of pensions, because the session musicians in the band are costing him more than he’s getting in ticket sales. Tragic.”

The movie, Life on the Road, does not have a premiere date yet.

[h/tTHR]
[Image via BBC]

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