A man discovers how to lie and uses it to become rich and famous.  I have been following this movie for over a year and from what I read in the script to people’s reviews thus far (like J.J. Abrams), it’s going to the Oscars by the sounds of it.  Gervais deserves a little more gold anyways for being so awesome.

See Gervais lie September 25th.
Vist his BLOG.

Lots of actual news today. Not just pictures of friends’ heads. (I know, I prefer those blogs too).  Did another warm-up gig tonight. It’s getting better and better but it’s still a bit loose and short. (Like a slutty dwarf)

As you may have read, I’m “in talks” about doing something else with my new best friend Elmo. It’s true, but we’re only brainstorming at the minute. I’ll let you know when anything more concrete happens.

Here is a little video with news of my lovely new film. Obviously dates can change but this is as sure as we can be at the moment. 

Did a bit more work on The Flanimals pop-up book. The content is nearly finished but the hard bit is engineering the poppy-upness of it all. It should be out by October though.

Worked on the storyboard for the audiobook animation. It’s a difficult one because even though it will reach a whole new audience on TV you don’t want to disappoint the people who know the audio intimately and may have formulated strong ideas about how things might look in their heads. But all you can do is do what you think is funny.

Looks like This Side of the Truth will be out in September in the US by the way.

(There has been quite a bit of false info floating around. I keep seeing that it’s out in March and that it’s called “Invention of Lying”, “The Truth about Lying” “This Side of Truth”… etc.)

Took one of the worst and most ridiculous (and therefore best) photos of me ever last night.

It will feature in my exclusive blog article “Ricky’s letter from America”. Coming soon.

Off to L.A. for a few days now.
Missing New York already.

This movie is going to be awesome for many reasons.  Let’s take a look.

Gervais is blogging his experience of working on this movie, from his collaboration with co-writer and director Matt Robinson (“During the [conference] call me and Matt passed each other off-putting notes and obscene pictures to make each other laugh. I lost, and at one point had to leave the room”) to observations about picking out costumes as an actor (“Some directors/lead actors would choose their wardrobe based on style, creation of original iconography and aesthetic enhancement of the fictional world. I chose mine based on comfort, how long they take to get in and out of and on what I would want to keep when the movie is complete.”)

His blog is hilarious and more often than not he doesn’t even talk about the movie, he will go on about current events and such.  He keeps you up to date on his Audio Books and TV appearances.  Really handy one stop shop for a Gervais fan.  Look at cast. Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman(Teen Wolf Too), Jonah Hill, Rob Lowe, the great Louis C.K., Tina Fey, Christopher Guest! And Jeffrey Tambor.  This is going to be awesome.

COMING SOON: Official title, release date, and poster.