Judd Apatow Producing The Third Pee-Wee Herman Movie!

[Leenie]

I recently watched the Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special. It's tradition for me to watch it every year. It's still hilarious.

http://www.thewrap.com/pee-wee-herman-movie-produced-by-judd-apatow-heading-to-netflix-exclusive/

Netflix

Awesome.

 

[Gabe99]

Feature Film PEE-WEE’S BIG HOLIDAY Begins Shooting in 3 Weeks
“In Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, a fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday in this epic story of friendship and destiny.”

 

[Daltonio]

I'm so stoked to hear this news, I've been waiting for a new Pee-Wee movie for so long!! It's finally happening!

 

[Samurai_Adam]

Excellent news! Looking forward to it!

 

[Octoberist]

about time!

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Lead Cenobite]

I'm sure anyone who's following news of the movie has already seen the trailer, but since the thread died long before it came out, I'll post the link to get things rolling again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quo-Oen1wkY

Since I heard about the movie and saw the trailer, I've been on a Pee-wee kick. I grew out of the character about around the time Playhouse ended and never looked back.

 

[Drizzle]

Joe Manganiello was the biggest name they could get for this, huh?

 

[Lead Cenobite]

Did it need big names?

 

[Dr. Evil]

Maybe the big names are being kept a secret?

Also, he's never traveled out of his home city? Did he not remember his quest to try to get his bike back? Or the time he tried to go to the circus?

 

[OcStat]

Guess that makes it a reboot. Wiping continuity clean!

 

[Dave McFly]

Maybe the big names are being kept a secret?

Also, he's never traveled out of his home city? Did he not remember his quest to try to get his bike back? Or the time he tried to go to the circus?

it was implied that the first 2 movies have nothing in common with each other other than them both having Pee Wee in it. but to me this 3rd movie is more closer to big adventure I swear parts of his town in the new film were used in the first one (mostly down town).

 

[Lead Cenobite]

I don't foresee any continuity between Big Holiday and Big Adventure at all. The house so far is totally different(but with another Rube Goldberg contraption that homages the breakfast machine), the bike is nowhere to be seen, and so far we haven't seen any of his Big Adventure friends or enemies.

 

[Majik1387]

None of Pee Wee's movies connect to each other or to the show, don't know why people think this one may.

 

[Dave McFly]

I saw that the actress who played Simone from Big Adventure is in this but as a different character making this her 3rd time working with Paul (part 1, batman returns, and part 3)

 

[terry78]

Just finished Big Holiday. Classic Pee-Wee. I was tearing up for a minute....my childhood, brah.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Saw Big Holiday. Not big names, but familiar faces: Joe Manganiello, Stephanie Beatriz, Alia Shawkat. Many of us know Beatriz from Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Rosa Diaz and Shawkat as Maeby Funke.

 

[DyeLorean]

I liked it. Cute, with a couple of good moments. I couldn't stop laughing with the one-take balloon bit and the "Would you like to say a few words?".

 

[Silvermoth]

That balloon bit was a scream.

Yeah I thought it was so funny. Great characters, cute story, nice romance with Joe mangianello. Very sweet

 

[Leenie]

So I finally watched this last night. It was so silly and adorable.

I hope this movie is successful, because I'd love to see Netflix green light another movie (hopefully a Pee-Wee's Playhouse movie; crossing fingers)!

 

[DarkKnight88]

Most intriguing of all, he's been pitching studios on The Pee-wee Herman Story, a very un-Pee-wee-sounding screenplay that takes his puckish TV persona into dark and unexpected territory (Pee-wee gets sent to a mental hospital for shock treatment for his alcoholism, no joke).

It took six years from his first conversation with Apatow for Pee-wee's Big Holiday to reach the screen — and even then it wasn't a big screen. First Universal Pictures, where the project was set up, passed after several years of development. Further complicating matters, Reubens and Apatow weren't seeing eye-to-eye creatively. Reubens — who concedes to being a "control freak" — was determined to make what he refers to as "the dark Pee-wee movie." It's a script whose first draft was completed in the late 1990s, and Reubens has been tinkering with it ever since. In it, Pee-wee emerges from prison to become an unlikely yodeling star; then moves to Hollywood and becomes a movie star; then he develops a severe pill and alcohol addiction that turns him into a monster. "I've referred to it as the Valley of the Dolls Pee-wee movie," Reubens says, dead serious. "It's about fame."

Undoubtably he could. Except Reubens, now more than ever, still wants to make his Valley of the Dolls Pee-wee movie, even if nobody else does. According to several well-placed sources, he's been aggressively shopping the Pee-wee Herman Story script around town and has agreed to make the movie for $15 million, half the budget of Big Holiday. Apatow still isn't interested and Sarandos passed on the project for Netflix, saying it "doesn't check off all the boxes" of a Pee-wee movie, according to a source with knowledge of the exchange. Undeterred, Reubens approached the Safdie brothers, the sibling-director wunderkinds behind Uncut Gems, who are considering the project. With his quote being a firm $3 million, and de-aging technology alone running around $1.5 million, the viability of the film has drawn skepticism from the finance departments of CAA, UTA and Endeavor Content.

Still, not all hope is lost for The Pee-wee Herman Story. One deep-pocketed super-fan from the U.K. — he showed up to a meeting decked out in full Pee-wee regalia — has offered to put up $10 million of his own money for the budget, according to the source (Reubens wouldn't confirm). It's now up to Reubens to find the rest. "I do feel like it's going to probably happen," he says. "I have a couple of people that are interested. But this is Hollywood. A couple people interested and five bucks will get you five bucks."

Pee-wee Herman's "Dark" Reboot: Paul Reubens Is Ready to Stage a Comeback

 

[DarkKnight88]

HBO Developing Paul Reubens AKA Pee-wee Herman Documentary – Deadline

 

[Sawyer]

My God, the Safdie Bros too?