Ricky Gervais Set to Have a Journalism Laugh
The original 2009 French feature comedy, Envoyés Très Speciaux, was about two journalists stranded in Paris pretending to report from the Iraq War front. The remake, Special Correspondents, to be shot next spring in New York and Vancouver, transposes the faux reporting focus to South America.
From Borys Kit’s Hollywood Reporter item:
The story tells of a once-hot radio journalist (Eric Bana) and his technician (Ricky Gervais) who, when tasked with reporting on a rebel uprising in Ecuador, fake their own kidnapping, pretending to be on the ground while actually “reporting” from the comfort of a hideout above a New York City restaurant across the street from their station.
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