Ricky Gervais has revealed that his new movie Cemetery Junction is inspired by Saturday Night Fever and Bruce Springsteen.
Gervais once again teams up with his partner in crime Stephen Merchant as they make their directorial debut, they have also penned the script and will serve as executive producers on the picture.
In an interview with Collider Gervais said: "One of the lines that inspired us is from [Springsteen's] 'Thunder Road, 'It's a town full of losers and we're pulling out of here to win'. It's like our Saturday Night Fever."
"I suppose it's about class. It's a romantic drama, I suppose. It's sort of a return to what Steve and I do best... the minutia of human behaviour.
"It's set in the early '70s and it's about a group of twentysomethings that try to escape that stifling small town sort of mentality."
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls.
Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is.
When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones), the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
Cemetary Road is released next year.
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