Nearly twenty years later, Luke Wilson is shocked by the next his cult satirical comedy Idiocracy (2005) nonetheless has.
The actor just lately admitted that he’s “always pitching” co-writer/director Mike Judge on a sequel to the movie, which starred him and Maya Rudolph as two individuals mistakenly left in cryosleep for 500 years, awaken in an period when the typical human intelligence has decreased a lot that Wilson’s Private Joe Bowers is now the neatest man on the planet.
“Oh, I always call Mike and tell him,” Wilson instructed Business Insider of his curiosity in a sequel. “He’s always busy and always working on a script. But I’ve always told him, how about me and Terry Crews and Dax Shepard coming back to the present day. We see Terry’s Camacho character become president, Dax’s character runs a movie studio. I’m always pitching that to Mike. He gets a kick out of it.”
After twentieth Century Fox mysteriously pulled the film from vast launch, it grossed solely $495,652. Idiocracy has since developed a cult standing, often introduced up as an more and more related satire amid elections and spreading of disinformation. Many have in contrast Crews’ clueless President Camacho to President Donald Trump.
Wilson stated the film “might be the biggest surprise” of his profession with regards to his most enduring roles amongst followers.
Terry Crews and Luke Wilson in Idiocracy (2006) (twentieth Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection)
“It seemed like such an odd, funny movie, and I like Mike Judge so much and knew him from Austin. Mike has such a great offbeat sense of humor, and I thought things were funny, but I didn’t know if it would translate,” he defined. “And Fox wasn’t actually giving him the cash for the results and set items.
“I’ll never forget I was reading the LA Times before the movie opened, and I saw a small ad that said Idiocracy, and only three theaters were listed. So I called Mike Judge, and he told me the studio dumped the movie. I was bummed out.”
Wilson added, “So I was so surprised when it became popular. It is the movie that gets brought up the most to me. Not just election time but over the years. It’s really special because it was something that couldn’t be denied despite a studio putting the hammer down on it.”
In 2012, Crews additionally instructed Movieline he continues to “badger” Judge a couple of potential sequel, and so they’d even met with Fox about making an internet collection for President Camacho. He’s revived the character on a number of events over time.