Great news for any Ricky Gervais fans out there as the British comedian announced today in an interview with Opie Radio that Netflix has picked up the worldwide distribution rights for his upcoming The Office spinoff movie David Brent: Life On The Road after it screens in cinemas in the UK this August.
“This is exciting news and this is top-secret,so I’m going to say it now,” he said while speaking on live radio. “Netflix has bought out the rest of the world again, so everyone’s going to see it.”
Gervais, of course, made Brent a household name with his spot-on portrayal of him as the annoyingly sleazy and pathetic manager of the Wernham Hogg Paper Company’s Slough branch in The Office, and this film will see him revisit the character 13 years after leaving the series.
With the new film following Brent as he and his band – the hilariously named Foregone Conclusion – embark on a tour around Britain, you can be sure that we’ll see Gervais back at his cringe-worthy best.
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This, of course, follows the streaming service’s recent partnership on Gervais’ last film Special Correspondents, which co-starred Eric Bana and premiered exclusively on Netflix, to middling reviews. Not the first film to forgo a global theatrical release in exchange for a guaranteed payday from Netflix, Gervais doesn’t seem to care too much that David Brent will only get his turn on the silver screen in the UK.
“I’d rather 20 million people see it than half a million people see it in cinemas,” he said in the interview.
Always a showman himself though, Ricky wasn’t about to let that news fall flat on its own, posting to Twitter to tease a new trailer coming this Friday.
You’re gonna love the new official full trailer for #LifeOnTheRoad. Hoping it will drop this Friday! #BrentsBack pic.twitter.com/vXRXAuPD0A
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 14, 2016
You can only see #LifeOnTheRoad in the UK & Australia in Cinemas, this August. Netflix have it for the rest of the world from next year.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 14, 2016
And while you wait on tender hooks for that to drop, why no revisit the first one here.
