Ricky Gervais snubbing British movies

Ricky Gervais has admitted that he is avoiding British movies as they cannot compare to their rivals in the US.

The Extras funnyman turned down a series of film offers before agreeing to take the starring role in Ghost Town, a forthcoming American fantasy-comedy movie.

"[Ghost Town] is absolutely the best script I've read for a movie," Gervais told Empire magazine. "I must have turned down over a hundred movies over the years because they have to tick a lot of boxes for me to be interested."

"The Americans are just better at it than us," he continued. "There's an odd exception, but when it comes to making movies we don't really cut the mustard. Not since about 1950."

Gervais also revealed that he was able to focus on his other projects during downtime on the movie's set.

He confirmed: "I've started writing new stand-up; I’ve got a couple of ideas for TV shows; I've worked out a way to do more podcasts with Karl Pilkington, with me calling him and filming him and vice versa; I'm working on a behind-the-scenes documentary for the film."