Cemetery Junction Teaser Trailer

You just have to accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (14)

I don’t know a lot about the next year’s Cemetery Junction, except that it’s written and directed by Ricky Gervais and his “The Office” partner, Stephen Merchant (and that it feels like cemetery should have an “a” in it). That should be enough, actually, to get me in the door. The logline is vague — A 1970s-set comedy centered on three upstart professional men working at an insurance company — but we do know that it stars Gervais, Ralph Feinnes, and Emily Watson. And even though it’s not due out until April 2010, there’s already a teaser trailer for it. Granted, there’s no actual footage from the movie, nor is there anything substantive about the movie in it, but it does have Ricky Gervais and Ralph Feinnes saying amusing things.

Do you really need anymore than that?

Here it is, compliments of Twitch:

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So The Office was actually created by three guys, right? Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and their height difference. His name is Carl.

Posted by: Lauren at July 9, 2009 5:37 PM

So, this is kinda like a Merchant Ivory film, only without the Ivory, and with a different Merchant.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 9, 2009 5:41 PM

With all the great things "the office" has accomplished, its funny being and all. It seems like nothing they did during the show was more hilarious than them standing on stage receiving the Golden Globe.
I dont even like Ricky Gervais on screen that much - but I am still hoping that he will be doing something with Steve Coogan sometime (or the other way around).

Posted by: CaptainSavvy at July 9, 2009 5:51 PM

I don't know about you (by that I mean the plural you), but I've been following the production of this film on R Gerv's blog and it's absolutely fascinating. Probably because I've never followed a film from inception to release in my life.

http://www.rickygervais.com/thissideofthetruth.php

Sidenote: I think it's time the English language re-incorporates the second person singular. I'm sick to death of having to revert to "y'all" or "yooooouuuuu + excessive gesticulating" when trying to communicate to more than one person. I think, from here on in, I shall utilize the first person singular whenever necessary.

@Lauren:

Dost thou not mean Karl?

Posted by: Ling at July 9, 2009 5:51 PM

Dost thou not mean Karl?

*checks with the height difference*

Nope, nope, he spells it with a 'C'.

Posted by: Lauren at July 9, 2009 5:59 PM

FIRST! LOL, that trailer wuz teh BOMB! Whoot! Can I has some Gervais? ROFL! Yeah...

Huh...

Well, there you go. A sample of days to come. Nowhere but down, now...

Fuckin' EE...

Posted by: Skitz at July 9, 2009 7:22 PM

I know its an act. But being mean to Ralph Fiennes, for shame! The poor lttle guy can't even say Ralph, have some sympathy.

Posted by: will at July 9, 2009 8:39 PM

They're actually still filming this right now.

If you aren't, you should be reading Ricky Gervais's production blog. It's very funny and amusingly old school; there's no RSS feed, no comments; I get the feeling he just adds stuff to the beginning of a long page in notepad. The URL is also amusingly out of date, having started on his last set while it still had the title thissideofthetruth (no wonder they changed it, no spaces)

http://www.rickygervais.com/thissideofthetruth.php

Posted by: Max at July 9, 2009 9:32 PM

Ralph Fiennes and Emily Watson? What can go wrong? Well - Ricky, but still.

Posted by: Cindy at July 9, 2009 9:34 PM

Ling,

The proper form for the third-person plural is yinz.

You (singular) are welcome.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at July 9, 2009 11:32 PM

That's how you repay me, Skitz?

I have half a mind to take that BACK.

Posted by: figgy at July 10, 2009 12:43 AM

Ricky Gervais's regular blog is pretty funny too. Also, , (bucdaddy) - you MUST be from Pittsburgh. Double yoi.

Posted by: K at July 10, 2009 6:40 AM

Look, I thought the Office was hilarious. Extras had brilliant bits in it.

But why aren't you giving Gervais any more shit? He does the same awkwardly arrogant bit EVERY time. He does it very well and surrounds himself with great people, but seriously, am I the only one thinking it's getting old?

Posted by: Angus at July 13, 2009 12:28 AM

Angus, I'll answer with something Gervais himself said in an interview: "I am limited as an actor. I don't do accents. Any character I ever play is a fat bloke from Redding. If I played Genghis Khan, he'd look and sound exactly like this. No make-up either, because I can't be arsed to get up two hours earlier."

Which is why I personally won't have a go.

Posted by: AbFab at July 13, 2009 2:17 PM

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