Cemetery, it is
Gervais renames new film
Ricky Gervais has been forced to rename his next movie after The Men From The Pru was vetoed by the Prudential insurance giant.He has now finally settled on the title Cemetery Junction, named after an area of his home town, Reading.
Writing on his blog, he said: ‘There’s something retro and weighty about it without feeling gritty or pretentious. It sounds like a 60s novel. Yes? Good.’
The film revolves around men in provincial Britain in the Seventies, entirely missing out on the sexual revolution happening elsewhere.
Gervais said the film, co-written with Stephen Merchant, is ‘about class and love in a small town’.
He has previously said it is about two twentysomethings who ‘are having a great time but it's about them coming of age and having to grow up’.
The Prudential initially co-operated with the film, allowing Merchant and Gervais to view old film of their reps at work, but are understood to have got cold feet over how they would be portrayed.
Cemetery Junction is the busy intersection of the A4 and the A329 roads in the east of Reading.
Published: 9 Apr 2009
