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| Ricky Gervais will bring David Brent back to life on the big screen more than a decade after The Office ended on BBC2. | Ricky Gervais will bring David Brent back to life on the big screen more than a decade after The Office ended on BBC2. |
| The much-anticipated Brent film, called Life on the Road, is backed by BBC Films and will go into production next year, it was announced on Tuesday. | The much-anticipated Brent film, called Life on the Road, is backed by BBC Films and will go into production next year, it was announced on Tuesday. |
| Currently in development, the film will find out what fate befell Brent after he was made redundant from Wernham Hogg and will be filmed in a similar “mockumentary” style to The Office. | Currently in development, the film will find out what fate befell Brent after he was made redundant from Wernham Hogg and will be filmed in a similar “mockumentary” style to The Office. |
| A sales rep selling cleaning products up and down the country, Brent has never given up on his dream of being a rock star and is followed on his own self-financed UK tour. | A sales rep selling cleaning products up and down the country, Brent has never given up on his dream of being a rock star and is followed on his own self-financed UK tour. |
| But while Brent imagines it will be like Martin Scorsese following the Rolling Stones, it ends up as a “where are they now?” documentary as the tour hits a cash crisis and veers towards the inevitable disaster. | But while Brent imagines it will be like Martin Scorsese following the Rolling Stones, it ends up as a “where are they now?” documentary as the tour hits a cash crisis and veers towards the inevitable disaster. |
| Gervais previously brought Brent back to life for a series of spoof guitar tutorials on YouTube and an unlikely live tour with his band, Foregone Conclusion. | Gervais previously brought Brent back to life for a series of spoof guitar tutorials on YouTube and an unlikely live tour with his band, Foregone Conclusion. |
| His most recent television project was Channel 4’s Derek, which recently came to the end of its second series. | |
| The Office ended in December 2003 with a pair of specials after two six-part series of the BBC sitcom which began in 2001. | The Office ended in December 2003 with a pair of specials after two six-part series of the BBC sitcom which began in 2001. |
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