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.
