Luke Wilson would reprise his Idiocracy function as Joe Bauers in a heartbeat.
The actor, who starred alongside Dax Shepard, Maya Rudolph and Terry Crews within the unique 2006 film helmed by Mike Choose, just lately advised Enterprise Insider that he’s “all the time pitching” sequel concepts to the filmmaker.
“Oh, I all the time name Mike and inform him,” Wilson stated. “He’s all the time busy and all the time engaged on a script. However I’ve all the time advised him, how about me and Terry Crews and Dax Shepard coming again to the current day. We see Terry’s Camacho character turn out to be president, Dax’s character runs a film studio. I’m all the time pitching that to Mike. He will get a kick out of it.”
Idiocracy facilities on Bauers, a decidedly common American, who is chosen by the U.S. Military for a top-secret hibernation program however is forgotten. He wakes up 500 years later to a future so extremely moronic that he’s simply the neatest individual alive.
The Legally Blonde actor added that the cult satirical comedy was most likely the “largest shock” of his profession, because it’s nonetheless beloved by so many right now. Particularly since twentieth Century Fox ended up pulling it from a large launch, leaving it to earn lower than $1 million on the field workplace. Nevertheless, that didn’t cease the movie from discovering its viewers.
“It appeared like such an odd, humorous film, and I like Mike Choose a lot and knew him from Austin,” Wilson stated of Idiocracy. “Mike has such an excellent offbeat humorousness, and I assumed issues had been humorous, however I didn’t know if it will translate. And Fox wasn’t actually giving him the cash for the results and set items.”
The No Good Deed star continued, “I’ll always remember I used to be studying the LA Instances earlier than the film opened, and I noticed a small advert that stated Idiocracy, and solely three theaters had been listed. So I referred to as Mike Choose, and he advised me the studio dumped the film. I used to be bummed out. So I used to be so shocked when it turned widespread. It’s the film that will get introduced up essentially the most to me. Not simply election time however through the years. It’s actually particular as a result of it was one thing that couldn’t be denied regardless of a studio placing the hammer down on it.”