Tina Fey. Martin Starr. Rob Lowe. Jonah Hill. Jennifer Garner. Patrick Stewart. Jason Bateman. Christopher Guest. That's not a bad cast to pull together for your big screen directorial debut. Yet that's just who Ricky Gervais has managed to bag for this Autumn's comedy, The Invention Of Lying. Gervais, who co-wrote the script and is co-directing with Matthew Robinson, will play a man who basically tells the world's first lie in an otherwise entirely honest world. Then, he tells quite a few more...

And the first trailer for the film has been released. It's shaping up really very well too, and that's not just our overt Tina Fey bias at work. Take a look below if you don't believe us...