The Invention Of Lying

The movie “The Invention Of Lying” is set on an alternate Earth where no one has ever lied, and stars Ricky Gervais as a performer who tells the world’s first lie, coming to wield its power for personal gain. Ricky Gervais describes his character, to Wild About Movies, as someone who “works in the film industry, where actors are really readers who tell completely factual stories, he’s lumbering through the 1300s. All he’s got to work with is the Black Death. But once he lies and pretends he’s found lost stories, he becomes the greatest storyteller in the world.”