Ricky Gervais to film 'mockumentary' during upcoming David Brent tour

Ricky Gervais has revealed that he plans to film a mockumentary while touring as David Brent.

Speaking to The Radio Times, Gervais has revealed that the upcoming David Brent tour is a type of smoke screen for the filming of a David Brent mockumentary. He says that it will be a dark comedy that fuses elements of Spinal Tap, Jack Kerouac and Scorsese and will be aimed at broadcast on HBO or Netflix. 

"It's just an idea. I want to do a tour, a little tour and people think they're seeing a tour," said Gervais. "I film it, but actually it's Brent who thinks he's making a Scorsese-type thing of On The Road."

"Of course, behind the scenes, it is so much sadder and more poignant. It's Spinal Tap meets sad Scorsese meets Anvil. It's more of the breakdown of this man who thought he was going to be something else."

Gervais also went on to say that he had been very pensive when bringing back Brent, making sure that he didn't rush into doing just anything with the character. He explained that whatever he did had to feel "justified".

"The reason I didn't bring Brent back before is that I wanted to do lots of other things first, but secretly I do want to do something else," he said. "It has to be right, it has to be justified. It can't be an unwanted encore. It can't even be an unwanted encore, because people don't know what they want."