Posted: Sun., Feb. 3, 2008, 7:00pm PT

Lowe seeks 'Truth' at WB

Actor joins Gervais, Garner in comedy

Rob Lowe has been set to star with Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner in "This Side of the Truth," a comedy Gervais and Matt Robinson wrote together and will co-direct.

Picture was set up as part of the Media Rights Capital slate; MRC made a distribution deal with Warner Bros. The film will be produced by Lynda Obst and Oly Obst. Shooting begins in the spring.

The comedy takes place in a world where everybody tells the truth. Gervais plays a storyteller whose job is to ramble on about the 1300s. Faced with losing his job because his terrain is a boring period in history once he gets beyond the Black Death, he invents lying as a way to save himself. Lowe will play his arch nemesis.

Lowe stars in the ABC series "Brothers & Sisters." His company, LoweProfile, has set two projects at ABC Studios, a crime drama and a relationship-based reality series.


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