We have word today that Ben Affleck has joined the ranks of Mike Judge’s Extract. We get the scoop from our friends at cinematical:
Here’s a movie that’s getting stranger and stranger the more details we get — and I’m loving it. First, Mike Judge’s Extract was simply a movie that “explores what it’s like to be the boss when everything seems to be shifting around you.” Then it became about a guy who owns an industrial flower-extract plant and has to deal with workplace issues and a cheating wife. Now, it turns out that one of the “workplace issues” is an employee who loses a body part in a freak accident, and that the wife is cheating on the protagonist with a gigolo.
Jason Bateman plays the factory owner — that, we already knew. We also knew that the amazing Kristen Wiig is playing the wife, and Mila Kunis another employee. The new info is that Clifton Collins, Jr. has joined the cast as the maiming victim, and Ben Affleck as an ambulance-chasing lawyer who, I’d imagine, wants to milk Bateman’s character for all he’s worth. No word on who’s playing the gigolo.
I like Mike Judge’s work and am interested in seeing how this project comes together. Bateman as a factory owner is great, I think he would make a very funny boss and can see him having great pep talks with his employees. Workplace comedy can be very, very funny and a factory setting is one that certainly needs to be tapped more often. The monotony of the job usually drives people to do outlandish things to keep themselves entertained, and these sorts of shenanigans make for great comedy.
This film sounds like it will be a lot of fun and it’s a score for Affleck to join their ranks. We will be sure to keep you posted on the updates!
