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One project wasn’t enough. Having already worked together on the television series Derek, Ricky Gervais and Netflix are teaming up again for the upcoming movie Special Correspondents, the streaming service announced in a press release on Monday. The comedy, which stars Eric Bana as a radio journalist whose career has been stymied by hubris, who fakes front line war reports from the comfort of his Manhattan apartment. Gervais, who’s also the writer and director of the movie, co-stars. Special Correspondents will hit Netflix sometime next year.
In other news…
David Lynch has dropped out of Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival because of money issues. He just doesn’t feel like he can do justice to his script, which he’d already completed with the money the network was willing to put up. For now, at least, it looks like the show will still go on, just without its iconic co-creator. [Twitter]
https://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH/status/584855237946552320
Daniel Craig isn’t as super human as James Bond. The actor is recovering from minor knee surgery following an injury suffered while filming Spectre. [Page Six]
Amazingly, Furious 7’s double-skyscraper jump isn’t actually impossible. [Vulture]
Rishi Kaneria explores Quentin Tarantino’s love of the profile shot in his latest supercut. [Vimeo]
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