Rob Lowe Joins Garner and Gervais In This Side Of Truth

It looks like This Side Of Truth has landed another stellar thespian. Rob Lowe will be joining the project and we get the outstanding news from the professionals at Variety:

Rob Lowe has been set to star with Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner in “This Side of the Truth,” a comedy Gervais and Matt Robinson wrote together and will co-direct. Picture was set up as part of the Media Rights Capital slate; MRC made a distribution deal with Warner Bros. The film will be produced by Lynda Obst and Oly Obst. Shooting begins in the spring.

The comedy takes place in a world where everybody tells the truth. Gervais plays a storyteller whose job is to ramble on about the 1300s. Faced with losing his job because his terrain is a boring period in history once he gets beyond the Black Death, he invents lying as a way to save himself. Lowe will play his arch nemesis.

A story about a man that invents lying is a brilliant idea, especially in the context of writing history. In order to save his job, he alters history books – that is a blank check for hilarious. I am interested in seeing how ridiculous the historical rewrites will be, and how he gets caught, because lying up to this point – never existed.

Rob Lowe is a fantastic choice for a spectrum of roles, comedy being one of them. He was great in everything from Wayne’s World to Thank You For Smoking and it will be a treat to see him work alongside Gervais. I am wondering if he will play a boss character or a moral investigator trying to make sense of this new paradigm of the fib. Either way, Lowe is a welcome addition to the cast and should be nothing short of delightful.

This film is scheduled for a 2009 release and we will be sure to keep you posted on the progress!