Paul Rueben writing new Pee-Wee Herman Movies
Posted on December 11th, 2007 by Hot Momma
Comedy actor PAUL REUBEN is attempting to reprise his most famous character to make two new Pee-Wee Herman movies. It’s been nearly 20 years since Pee-wee appeared in a feature film of his own.
Just months after vowing never to play the comic creation that defined his career again, Reubens is working on two new scripts - the first due for release in 2009, 19 years after he retired the beloved character.
He explains his change of heart to MTV, “I feel like the time is really ripe right now. A lot of the kids who grew up with the show are young adults. The college kids are middle-aged adults. I feel like I have enough of a built-in audience to make back an investment.”
Of the two movies planned one is an extension of the famed TV show, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” only this story would take Pee-wee and his friends outside the house for the first time to explore “puppet land”.
The second film, which Reubens called “the dark Pee Wee movie,” basically the story of Pee-wee Herman becoming famous as a singer,” he explained. “He has a hit single and gets brought out to Hollywood to make musical movies, kind of like they did with Elvis. It all kind of goes downhill from there for Pee-wee. He turns into a monster.
Whether the 55-year-old Reubens can realistically don Pee-wee’s red bow tie again was answered for him after his first appearance in character in 15 years at Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards. Despite being quite nervous, Reubens said the character “came right back” to him. Still, Reubens said he had a backup plan for the Pee-wee movies should he not be up for the part. “My second option is to have Johnny Depp play Pee-wee,” he said. Pie-in-the-sky casting or a realistic plan, Reubens insisted that he’s even spoken to Depp about it, saying that the actor told him, “Let me think about it.”
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