Okay, it’s a bit of a cult phenomenon and little known in the regular world but Mike Judge’s Office Space is a very, very funny movie. It’s Judge’s only move outside of the animation world – where he’s known for King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead – and it’s just loaded up with quietly absurd characters made even moreso due to the fact that we all know people like this. See Day-vuh over there? Yeah, he can quote most of it. So I was pretty happy to hear that Judge is working on a new live action film, currently untitled, and even happier when he spilled this little bit of info to The Onion:
“The basic premise is that most science fiction shows the future as being more civilized or more intelligent, and that’s just not the way we’re headed. Like, if someone made a movie in the late ’50s about the year 2004, it probably wouldn’t have had The Maury Povich Show, and gangs, and whatever. So this starts out as a documentary about how the people who are reproducing the fastest are guys who are too lazy to put on a rubber, and lots of highly educated people are waiting until they’re 40 to have a kid, and then having one or none. It’s kind of a sleeper movie about how, 400 or 500 years from now, a guy who’s your average dumbass today is the smartest person in the world.”
Read the whole interview here.
Why not make an “Office Space 2” movie? So many people quote the first movie, I really believe its a cult classic. To make another one wouldnt require a huge budget but I would be shocked if it didnt gross at least 50 mil. Especially if the trailer shows Milton whining about his stapler and Lumberg saying “Peter…hows it goin?”
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