Ricky Gervais has been plenty busy since the finish of his critically acclaimed series The Office. Not the one with Steve Carrell, the one that one is based on. If you haven’t seen Gervais’s second series Extras, find a TV with HBO on Demand and start watching now. The funny thing is, that even though Gervais has been plenty busy both in film in television over the past few years, aside from Extras he’s staunchly avoided starring roles, settling instead for great cameos in movies like Stardust.

It’s not like there haven’t been offers, Hollywood studios have been beating down Gervais’s door with projects, but he’s avoided big roles in feature films until now, when he’s holding the reigns. Variety says Gervais will co-direct, co-write, and star in a movie called This Side of Truth.

The film is set in an alternate universe where no one has ever lied. Ricky plays a guy who tells the first fib, and then uses his lying powers for personal gain. It sounds kind of like Liar, Liar, except taken way too far. Here’s how Gervais described it: “My character's a loser who's about to lose his job, and who'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.”

You’ve gotta respect his utter determination to stick with doing his own stuff. He’s kind of like comedy’s version of a singer-songwriter. There will be no Evan Almighty on Ricky Gervais’s resume. So far, everything he’s done has been absolute genius. I expect nothing less than comedic godhood from This Side of Truth. Ricky Gervais delivers.

For proof of Gervais's eternal greatness, take a look at my favorite moment from Extras: