This has HUGE Potential written all over it! Ricky Gervais of “The Office” fame is starring in the new film For Your Consideration to be directed by the awesome Christopher Guest.
Guest’s last two directoral endeavors, A Mighty Wind and Best In Show, are two of the funniest comedies I’ve seen this decade. Both unlike another film and truly original. Guest has an approach all his own, and it looks like For Your Consideration is bringing back most of the cast he used in his previous two films… which is also great news because that cast has fantastic chemistry. Richard posted about this about 2 months ago… but there were very few details… now a few more have come out.
The concept of For Your Consideration sounds just killer. The good folks over at Ananova give us this:
Ricky Gervais has signed up to play a studio boss in a new film about the movie awards season. The Office star will play a man convinced his awful film is going win an award in For Your Consideration. Written and directed by Spinal Tap star Christopher Guest, the film will also feature American Pie’s Eugene Levy.
Sadly that probably means the film is a good year away from being released, but I’ve got a feeling that it’ll be well worth the wait.
Did anybody watch the last episode of his show ‘Extras’ on the BBC tonight? I was (once again) hilarious. Patrick Stewart (you know, from Star Trek and X-Men) was the guest star. Him talking about his movie screenplay was very, very funny.
More info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/extras/guests/patrick_stewart.shtml
A Mighty Wind was good and Best In Show was great, but Waiting For Guffman was better still.
Love Gervais, love the concept. Seems like Guest and crew are targetting Hollywood these days (yay!), as Bob Balaban’s new animated series on IFC, “Hopeless Pictures”, is also about a film studio.