Ricky Gervais has explained how Netflix opened up the realm of possibilities for his new film, Special Correspondents, including those for filmmakers in general. Originally set for sale to a big studio, Gervais says he was made ‘an offer I could’t refuse’ from Netflix at a recent event held by the studio, according to CNET. ‘I’ve always had the final edit,’ he goes on, ‘I’ve always done my own thing… but usually to get that luxury I’d go to fringe channels – BBC Two not BBC One, Channel 4…
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‘Netflix will see the return of the auteur,’ Ricky Gervais declared at a Netflix press event earlier this month, ‘because you will make the movie that you wanted.’ The British comedian has demonstrably proven that he’s kept off the beaten path for the duration of his career so far, instead making his claim to success with more and more curious projects after another. When the studios did come calling for a big-budget comedy, he wrote The Invention of Lying; a flawed, but thoroughly…
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Ricky Gervais’s new comedy follows a struggling radio journalist and his hapless technician faking frontline war reports from a NYC hideout. Only on Netflix April 29.
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