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Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40 Year-Old Virgin), who has developed his own “school” of contemporary screen comedy, is developing an as-yet-untitled Pee-wee Herman feature for Universal. Pee-wee himself (Paul Reubens) is writing the movie along with Paul Rust (Inglourious Basterds, I Love You Beth Cooper). Apatow will produce the new Pee-wee film through his Apatow Productions, but he is not slated to direct.



According to Variety, the new film will be a “road picture” starring the “iconic nerd,” which certainly conjures up memories of the delightfully episodic Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, which Tim Burton directed in 1985. After the success of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, which was Burton’s first directorial effort, Reubens starred in the innovative Pee-wee’s Playhouse series that ran on Saturday mornings on CBS from 1986-1990.



Reubens’ career came to a screeching halt in 1991 when he was arrested in Florida for indecent exposure, but he has mounted a very successful theatrical revival/revue, The Pee-wee Herman Show, which just finished an extended run in L.A. and is headed to Broadway in October.

Reubens has been talking about a new Pee Wee movie for years. This is could be the best choice of director for that project.

Well he isn't going to direct, but working it in with that brand sounds like a good idea.

Yeah, completely skimmed the article.

I think it's a briliant idea because they likely won't step around the fact that Pee Wee Herman's place in pop culture has changed.
They will also probably make the movie itself about Pee Wee Herman returning to prominence or something.
The humor and audience of those movies is one that grew up with Pee Wee Herman, so it will mesh well. The best bet is to keep it true to Pee Wee Herman, but also embrace the fact that times and the audience have changed. If you try to do the exact same thing again in 2010 it will likely fail.

Jason Segel is also writing and starring in a new Muppets movie. I'm not sure what involvement the Apatow production has with that project, if any, but that also seems to me like a similar approach. It's one I support.

I was hoping this would be about "You Bet Your Life: The remake."

The Muppets have been iffy since Jim Henson died. I hate Kermit's voice.

Everything has been iffy since Jim Henson died. If they could Frank Oz to direct the Segel script that would probably be the best bet

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At last the trilogy will be complete.

Finally, closure.