--- title: The Office Film: Ricky Gervais' David Brent Movie To Be Released in US description: The mockumentary will open Aug. 19, 2016 in the U.K., with a U.S. debut to follow canonical: https://time.com/3932343/ricky-gervais-david-brent-film/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-23T17:17:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:25.112Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: David Brent From 'The Office' Is Coming to the U.S. og:description: Ricky Gervais will star in a mockumentary based on his 'The Office' character og:url: https://time.com/3932343/ricky-gervais-david-brent-film/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff2a68537c01571a/698857f335ba6f4b66c0de1b/460516892-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ricky Gervais at the UK Premiere of "Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb" in London on Dec. 15, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: David Brent From 'The Office' Is Coming to the U.S. twitter:description: Ricky Gervais will star in a mockumentary based on his 'The Office' character twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff2a68537c01571a/698857f335ba6f4b66c0de1b/460516892-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ricky Gervais' _The Office_ Movie Spinoff Is Coming to the U.S. by [Andrea Towers / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Andrea Towers / Entertainment Weekly Jun 23, 2015 5:17 PM UTC  Ricky Gervais at the UK Premiere of "Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb" in London on Dec. 15, 2014. Ricky Gervais at the UK Premiere of "Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb" in London on Dec. 15, 2014.Karwai Tang—WireImage/Getty Images by [Andrea Towers / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Andrea Towers / Entertainment Weekly Jun 23, 2015 5:17 PM UTC David Brent is coming to America. Open Road Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to _Life on the Road_, a mockumentary based on Ricky Gervais’ awesomely obnoxious _Office_ character. In the new film, a documentary crew follows the former regional manager of Wernham-Hogg paper as he pursues his dreams of being a rockstar during a self-financed tour with his band, Foregone Conclusion. “David Brent getting a big U.S. theatrical release? He can die happy now. (Spoiler alert—he does not die in this movie),” Gervais joked in a press release. “Ricky Gervais is a comic genius and we can’t wait to see where he takes this beloved character,” Open Road CEO Tom Ortenberg said in a statement. The film will open Aug. 19, 2016 in the U.K., with a U.S. debut to follow. Get excited… _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/23/ricky-gervais-david-brent-movie-US-deal) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3932343/ricky-gervais-david-brent-film/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3932343/ricky-gervais-david-brent-film/"},"headline":"Ricky Gervais' The Office Movie Spinoff Is Coming to the U.S.","datePublished":"2015-06-23T17:17:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:25.112Z","description":"Ricky Gervais will star in a mockumentary based on his The Office character","url":"https://time.com/3932343/ricky-gervais-david-brent-film/","keywords":["movies","Newsfeed","Television","Ricky Gervais"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff2a68537c01571a/698857f335ba6f4b66c0de1b/460516892-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Andrea Towers / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff2a68537c01571a/698857f335ba6f4b66c0de1b/460516892-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ricky Gervais at the UK Premiere of \"Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb\" in London on Dec. 15, 2014.","caption":"Ricky Gervais at the UK Premiere of \"Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb\" in London on Dec. 15, 2014.","creditText":"Karwai Tang—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3932343/ricky-gervais-david-brent-film/","name":"Ricky Gervais' The Office Movie Spinoff Is Coming to the U.S."}}]}] ```