A Few More Teeny-Weeny Details About The New Pee-wee Movie!!

Merrick here...
The New York Times spoke to Paul Reubens regarding the genesis of the Judd Apatow produced Pee-wee Herman movie we learned about earlier this week. In the previous newslet, we were told this new film would be a "road movie" of some sort. Reuben's expands on that a bit with NYT...

What Mr. Apatow wanted, Mr. Reubens said, was “a reality-based world and a linear road movie.” So that’s the path that Mr. Reubens and a co-writer, Paul Rust, are working along, for now. “That appears to be what we’re doing,” Mr. Reubens said, “although it’s at such an early stage right now that there still exists the possibility that this could turn into the ‘Playhouse’ movie. I don’t think we know the answer to that yet.” It’s still anyone’s guess what this combination of comic man-children will ultimately yield. The Pee-wee character seems synonymous with a youthful innocence, while Mr. Apatow has a sensibility that can be naughty and often rude – but, Mr. Reubens said, “So can mine.”

...says Paul HERE. I'm really, really hoping this project comes together and that Pee-wee, at long last, gets the break and mainstream resurrection he deserves. There's so much about the character I enjoy, but I'm a particularly huge fan of the admittedly uneven and wholly odd PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE... ...the entirety of which is available HERE. More info about this project as more comes in...
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