The Official "Ricky's Blog" thread

by **Barrylad** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 3:13 am

UPDATE 25/10/08

Just a little title change, to correspond with rickygervais.com. They finally realised that he does all BUT discuss he's films these days. Mostly his round headed freak mates.

by **jacktheripper** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 11:17 am

Excellent, hope people use this.

by **Rickydiculous** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 3:56 pm

Ricky's dead on about the picture of Louis CK

My favourite pic was Louis CK's which I can only assume was his mug-shot from when he was arrested for armed robbery in Bolivia.

Hilarious

by **nicholls** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 10:25 pm

Another update. Jason Bateman has been officially cast. http://rickygervais.com/thissideofthetruth.php I can't handle this. Ricky is trying to kill us with amazing updates on that damn site.

by **Jolee** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 10:37 pm

Oh. My. God. Bateman is confirmed. It's all too much to handle...

by **Barrylad** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 11:01 pm

hehe
hilarious posts by RG.
Glad to see Baters involved

by **MonkeyNews** » Sat 22 Mar, 2008 1:50 pm

Bateman + Garner again? Juno anyone?

by **somnium** » Mon 24 Mar, 2008 4:46 am

"I'll show you a fucking s.e.x-change. They fucking butchered me and you think it's funny. I was teen wolf you mother-fucking limey"

"Well, teen wolf too" I said.

"How are you spelling the too bit?'' he snapped. "T double O" I replied.

that's awesome....i love it that ricky's bloggin...

by **Christina** » Mon 24 Mar, 2008 9:22 am

MonkeyNews wrote:Bateman + Garner again? Juno anyone?

Bateman and Tambor again? AD anyone?

Not really.

by **KnockinAbout** » Mon 24 Mar, 2008 1:11 pm

I was skeptical about this movie at first, but after hearing more of the cast, it sounds like it'll be awesome.

by **Rickydiculous** » Mon 24 Mar, 2008 4:26 pm

New blog post

Week four - March 2008
How do you like our logo? You hadn't noticed? Well look now. You don't really care either way? Good. That's what we were aiming for.

So, a final bit of casting news is that Stephen Merchant and Shaun Williamson will rekindle their on-screen partnership with a small cameo in the movie.

Barry, I mean Shaun, will play my father. Yes I know he's about my age but it's a flash back and he does look a bit like me. Stephen on the other hand looks like no one I've ever met.

Sorry Ricky, the logo is fantastic, genius, the most brilliant thing I've ever seen. Oh wait, sarcasm doesn't really work on a discussion board.

Barry as Ricky's dad? hmmm...

I wonder what young Ricky will look like in flashback.

by **MMatt** » Tue 25 Mar, 2008 1:43 am

haha wonder if that's the final logo, I could come up with somethin better in 5 minutes.

hang on....

brilliant.

:p

If Barry is playing Ricky's dad, I reckon Stephen will be a creepy uncle.

by **Rickydiculous** » Wed 26 Mar, 2008 2:46 am

Another new blog posted.

Week four - March 2008
Some rival New England news outlets are trying to stir up trouble between me and the good people at the Lowell Sun.

These miscreants, who shall remain nameless, suggested that I insulted the local Lowell tabloid and that the editor replied with a threat to have me whacked.

May I point out that we were BOTH JOKING.

And to the Lowell Sun, don't listen to them. I'll give you an exclusive before we move out of your lovely parish.

My thanks to the guys at fabfunk for putting us straight in at number 3 in the film news chart. I demand a re-count.

See? We're not just big in Lowell.

Louis CK, who is from this neck of the woods is also getting written about...

...
And now he's getting ready to try his hand at full-on acting in Ricky Gervais' upcoming This Side of the Truth (co-written with Matthew Robinson), which begins shooting next month. The film has a gigantic cast (Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Tina Fey, Christopher Guest, to name a few) and Louis has a fairly central role. "I play the best friend. A big dummy," he said. "[In the role,] I'm sort of a big, stupid idiot."
...

Here's the full article from the Hartford Advocate.

And here's a nice clip of Louis in action. It's the effort I admire.

I wish he would do more video clips.

by **Pudsey** » Wed 26 Mar, 2008 9:46 pm

xtinanz wrote:
MonkeyNews wrote:Bateman + Garner again? Juno anyone?

Bateman and Tambor again? AD anyone?

Not really.

Yeah, while there's a lot of cross-overs in the actors, I don't think it's going to be like Juno, or AD for that matter.

Somewhat off-topic, but I only just found out that Tambor is a scientologist. I'm oddly gutted by this news.

by **Scott Carson** » Wed 26 Mar, 2008 10:34 pm

I fail to see how a touch of Juno or Arrested Development would be a bad thing. They're both great.
Love the casting of this film btw. I even like Jonah Hill, even though he can only play one part. But then, you can say the same thing about Ricky ("Fat bloke from Reading").
Wouldn't mind seeing Martin Freeman or Mackenzie Crook in another Gervais-project. I'm a little surprised that Ricky doesn't cast Martin Freeman since they appear to be mates. I guess he doesn't want it associated with and compared to The Office anymore than than it will be anyway.

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