Trailer And Poster Released For Gervais & Merchant's CEMETERY JUNCTION
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Feb 4 2010, 10:02 PM
After a fairly minimalist teaser trailer released last summer, the full trailer and one-sheet for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's CEMETERY JUNCTION are now online. I am very much looking forward to this, as The Office and Extras are two amazing pieces of television. Gervais explains on his blog that as evidenced in the trailer, the film will skew much further towards drama than his previous works. Gervais and Merchant both feature onscreen, as well as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, and Matthew Goode, but the film's central stars are largely unknown (at least to American audiences) young actors; Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, and Felicity Jones.
CEMETERY JUNCTION tells the funny, touching and universal story of being trapped in a small town and dreaming of escape. In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones), the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
I was underwhelmed by THE INVENTION OF LYING, Gervais' first foray into film (with co-writer and director Matt Robinson), but this material seems to be more in his wheelhouse, and working again with Stephen Merchant, whom I believe to be one of the funniest men on the planet right now, bodes well for the film. Cemetery Junction opens in the UK on April 14th, and later this year for the rest of the world.
Also coming up for fans of Gervais and Merchant is The Ricky Gervais Show, an animated series adapting stories from their bestselling podcasts and audiobooks with round-headed friend Karl Pilkington. The premieres stateside on HBO on Friday, February 19th, and in March on Channel 4 in the UK.
After a fairly minimalist teaser trailer released last summer, the full trailer and one-sheet for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's CEMETERY JUNCTION are now online. I am very much looking forward to this, as The Office and Extras are two amazing pieces of television. Gervais explains on his blog that as evidenced in the trailer, the film will skew much further towards drama than his previous works. Gervais and Merchant both feature onscreen, as well as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, and Matthew Goode, but the film's central stars are largely unknown (at least to American audiences) young actors; Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, and Felicity Jones.
CEMETERY JUNCTION tells the funny, touching and universal story of being trapped in a small town and dreaming of escape. In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones), the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
I was underwhelmed by THE INVENTION OF LYING, Gervais' first foray into film (with co-writer and director Matt Robinson), but this material seems to be more in his wheelhouse, and working again with Stephen Merchant, whom I believe to be one of the funniest men on the planet right now, bodes well for the film. Cemetery Junction opens in the UK on April 14th, and later this year for the rest of the world.
Also coming up for fans of Gervais and Merchant is The Ricky Gervais Show, an animated series adapting stories from their bestselling podcasts and audiobooks with round-headed friend Karl Pilkington. The premieres stateside on HBO on Friday, February 19th, and in March on Channel 4 in the UK.
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