DarkRoan
Anthony's Spanish Tutor
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Post by DarkRoan on Mar 28, 2004 19:23:22 GMT -5
I was at IMDB.com and it says that his new movie is called 3001, associated with Mike Judge. It says that it's going to be filmed in Austin, Tx. Which is great! (If it's true) Seems like he really loves Texas!! (I'm not complaining) but has anyone heard anything else about this film? And, does Luke, now, do movies only in Texas?? The concept is a man goes into the future and realizes that society has dumbed down and is now the most intelligent man ever. Sounds funny, but could go astray if not written properly. What have ya'll heard??
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Post by LegallyLukes on Mar 29, 2004 22:52:48 GMT -5
That's pretty much all we've heard too! Could be funny though ;D
As for Luke only doing movies in Texas, guess he just likes the place!
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Post by Librarian on Apr 2, 2004 15:04:07 GMT -5
Here's some new casting info:
Rudolph, Shepard Fast Forward to '3001' Fri, Apr 02, 2004, 09:04 AM PT LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - "Saturday Night Live's" Maya Rudolph and "Punk'd" star Dax Shepard are in negotiations to join Luke Wilson in the next millennium.
The trio will star in "3001," a comedy to be directed by "Beavis and Butt-head" creator Mike Judge. The film centers on Joe Bowers (Wilson), who takes a nap for a top-secret hibernation program who wakes to find out 1,000 years has passed, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The unfamiliar future's civilization is so dumbed-down, Bowers is now the most intelligent person alive.
Rudolph plays a prostitute, while Shepard is Bowers' court-appointed attorney who has a perpetually glassy look in his eyes.
Shooting is scheduled to start this month. Judge last directed 1999's workplace comedy "Office Space" and is set to direct Fox's "Meat in the Freezer."
Besides appearing weekly on NBC's "SNL," the 31-year-old Rudolph can be seen in the romantic comedy "50 First Dates." Shepard, 29, next stars opposite Seth Green and Matthew Lillard in "Without a Paddle," which will open in November.
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Post by LegallyLukes on Apr 3, 2004 18:54:48 GMT -5
Dax Shepherd is that manic blonde haired guy? Interesting!
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Post by Librarian on Apr 7, 2004 10:54:22 GMT -5
Here's a positive script review from comingsoon.net
Script Review of Mike Judge's 3001 Source: That Guy Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Scooper 'That Guy' has provided ComingSoon.net with a first look at the script for Mike Judge's new comedy 3001, which 20th Century Fox will distribute:
3001 is the next film from Office Space writer and director, Mike Judge (also the creator of Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill). The date of the draft I read is August 13, 2002, gives writing credits to Mike Judge and Etan Cohen (who was a writer on both "Beavis" and "King"), and is tentatively titled "Uhmerica." Personally, I prefer the "Uhmerica" title to 3001, but I assume the name change had something to do with not wanting a title that seemed unpatriotic or something along those lines. Luke Wilson is set to star, alongside SNL's Maya Rudolph and Punk'd regular Dax Shepard, with an April 12 start date for filming.
Before I get into the nuts and bolts of the project, let me say this… I absolutely love Office Space and the way it mocks the sometimes absurd and mundane life of everyday office work. While I can't say I've ever had an office job quite like the one portrayed in the movie, I can relate to the situations in the film because Mike Judge is one of those people who just "gets it." He takes all of those ridiculous and ever-occurring idiotic people and situations that we all know in life and just ridicules them. In the same way that Office Space did that to the world of TPS reports and memos, 3001 does that to our seemingly inevitable future. It simply makes a mockery of the endless McDonaldization of America… and it does so with unapologetic, laugh out-loud humor.
As far as the story goes, the little description blurb at IMDB has this to say…
"Private Joe Bowers, the definition of 'average American', is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program, set 1,000 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.”
While their outline is fairly accurate, it's not completely on the money. The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the "Human Hibernation Project," is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they’re needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Bowers (Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they've got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Seeing as though he was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and "due to a lot of top-secret red tape... and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita were forgotten about."
We are then treated to a montage spanning the next 1,000 years on the progression, or lack there of, of human society. But, instead of us advancing and becoming more intelligent, man continues to give into the sensationalism and brutality of the ultra-commercial, in-your-face brand of marketing and commercial control…
"We see a baseball stadium. The marquee outside announces 'Championship Baseball.' DISSOLVE to a marquee reading 'Extreme Baseball.' Inside, a runner is caught in a hotbox between second and third. Instead of gloves, the second and third basemen brandish bats menacingly. In the background, various players are engaged in batfights that seem to have little connection to the game. Outside, the marquee DISSOLVES again, this time it just reads 'FIRE.' We see huge flames rising up from the center of the stadium as the crowd goes berserk.”
There's also a hilarious opening scene of the script that perfectly sets up the eventual future in the film. It deals with a conservative, smart, and well-to-do yuppie couple who plans and over-analyzes every aspect of their life, mainly that of the decision of when to have a child. Simultaneously, on the right side of the screen appears a "white trash" couple who has lots of sex without protection, and over generations and generations, produce more and more dumbasses, "multiplying like rabbits, drowning out the yuppie couple."
NARRATOR
"Evolution does not necessarily reward that which is good or beautiful. It simply rewards those who reproduce the most."
And the more stupid people there are, the easier it is for America to become, for lack of a better word, retarded. Eventually, Joe's hibernation pod, still intact, is accidentally dislodged from a huge landfill and he wakes to find himself in a somewhat futuristic-styled, broken-down world of Neanderthal-like dumbasses, run by a WWF-themed government system and a computer network called OmniPal, "which no living human being is smart enough to maintain, repair, or even question." This is a world where people can actually earn a degree from Wal-Mart, they think that "water sucks," and if you were to flip through the channels on TV, you'd find things like the "Violence Channel," the "Masturbation Channel," and a program called "Owe, My Balls!" – which features a guy getting nailed in the balls any and every way you can possibly imagine. From here on out it's Joe's job to escape the authorities (who also think he's gay because he talks normal), find Rita (who has also survived ), and get to a time machine that he believes can take him back to where he came from. Aiding Joe (or hindering him depending on how you look at it) along the way is Frito (named Dizz in the draft I read, will be played by Shepard), his court-appointed attorney who is perhaps the dumbest of the dumb among the people Joe encounters.
Once this film is released, I can see how some people will walk out of the theater saying things like "that was just plain dumb" or that it was "the stupidest thing ever." And I say to those people… THAT’S EXACTLY THE POINT! It's meant to be that way. It's meant to make a mockery of the state of the world today by warning us of where America is headed. And it does so with the comic brand of Office Space mixed with a little bit of Beavis and Butt-head. From the way the dialogue is written for the people in the future, to the absurd situations Joe finds himself in, the story delivers. This is one of those films that will just be pure fun. Don't expect much of a character-driven plot or any Oscar moments from this one. That being said, bottom line, 3001 is one of the funniest scripts I've ever read, gets a great point across on where the world is heading, and will no doubt have a cult following in the way that Office Space does, probably even more so. That should be enough to satisfy anyone eating a Big Mac, sipping on Starbucks coffee, while watching the latest episode of Punk'd. And for everyone else, it'll be even better.
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Post by AlsoAVirgo on Apr 23, 2004 19:39:23 GMT -5
I just read that this movie isn't scheduled to start until May 3. Did anyone else read this? Maybe that's why we haven't heard anything about Luke being in Austin.
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Post by Remi on Jul 16, 2004 7:50:58 GMT -5
This is from www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=113244&SecID=2 Movie props sold from latest Judge film 7/15/2004 8:22 PM By: News 8 Austin Staff Filming for Mike Judge's latest feature length movie wrapped up in Austin. It left behind $500,000 worth of set pieces that were sold in a giant garage sale. The public had a chance to take home a piece of movie memorabilia or maybe just find furniture or kitchenware. Prices on the items ranged from 25 cents to $500. Anything left over will be donated to charity. The film stars former Longhorn Luke Wilson. It is currently untitled. Judge also directed Office Space.
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Post by Remi on Jul 30, 2004 17:41:23 GMT -5
Here's another look at this movie...
Beavis creator sees a funny future and films it
03:29 PM CDT on Friday, July 30, 2004
By JANE SUMNER / The Dallas Morning News
MOVIESAUSTIN – What if the future isn't as civilized, advanced and clever as the sci-fi films make it out to be? What if it's really dirty, lazy and, well, stupid?
That's what Mike Judge, 41, originator of Beavis & Butt-head and co-creator of King of the Hill, wondered. And that's the premise for a 20th Century Fox film, his biggest, most ambitious yet, that wrapped this month at Austin Studios.
For nearly 50 days, some hot as a prairie fire, he helmed his futuristic comedy about a top-secret Army hibernation project that goes off the rails.
Dallas native Luke Wilson is Pvt. Joe Bauers, an average guy tapped for the experiment. Forgotten for 500 years, he awakens to a world so dumbed-down that he's the smartest person on the planet.
"In other words," says Mr. Judge, screenwriter, director and producer of the still untitled project, "he's a one-eyed man in the land of the blind."
Despite his "Heh-heh-heh" as a dim adolescent on Beavis & Butt-head and his garbled gab as Boomhauer on King of the Hill , the Austin resident is really a brainy, quick-witted guy – thoughtful, serene and self-effacing.
Born in Ecuador, he grew up in New Mexico, earned a degree in physics from the University of California at San Diego, played stand-up bass with the likes of Texas blues guitarist Anson Funderburgh and lived in Richardson, where he taught himself animation.
He got the idea for his second live-action film while mulling evolution during the making of Beavis & Butt-head Do America, the hit movie based on his MTV cartoon.
"Evolution's always interested me," he says. "Also the fact that medical technology now guarantees survival for just about everybody. So whoever has the most kids, there's going to be more of that in the gene pool."
And whose genes does that favor? Well, Mr. Judge figures it's guys too lazy, dumb or irresponsible to wear a condom and guys who impregnate women and leave.
"There was an article that didn't get a lot of attention about how the crime-rate drop corresponded to about 17 years after Roe v. Wade," he says. "The theory was that a lot of unwanted kids weren't born who would have been coming of criminal age."
But people don't want to talk about it too much, he says. "It gets into eugenics. To me, it's just like all the people on The Jerry Springer Show, who've knocked up, like, five girls, and then their sons knocked up five and the responsible people waited to have kids."
He came up with the movie concept in 1995 but, believing the script would be difficult to write, stashed it away in his notebook of ideas. A family trip to Disneyland inspired him to dust it off.
It was a hot August day, and the theme park didn't look like the wholesome fun fair Uncle Walt had envisioned. Instead, there were what appeared to be gang members milling around while two women with little kids screamed and yelled obscenities at each other.
There in front of the Alice in Wonderland ride, Mr. Judge glimpsed the future and his next feature film. To help with the script, which he decided not to take seriously, the director hired screenwriter Etan Cohen, a veteran of Beavis & Butt-head and King of the Hill .
When Mr. Cohen suggested including a museum dedicated to flatulence, he knew he had the right scribe. The script is "pure comedy, a gag-fest kind of thing," Mr. Judge says. "The movie starts out faux documentary style told from the distant future and takes that forward."
While it sounds like an apocalyptic film without a defining event, he says, "There is a dust bowl that's brought on because they've been watering their plants for years with a sports drink." Although the comedy doesn't get too political, he says, the secretary of energy won a contest to get into the Cabinet and the president of the country, played by former NFL player Terry Crews, was elected purely on charisma.
"I was kind of thinking of a pimped-out Ronald Reagan-Bill Clinton type. He basically walks around with a lot of groupies, girls he's met in bars – kind of like a combination rock star and taking the Jesse Ventura thing to 500 years in the future."
In Mr. Judge's future, every available space, even clothing, is covered with advertising, people can no longer spell and signs abound for Flaturin, a yellow goop eaten by hand. The name was born when the director misheard his co-writer say "margarine" over a bad cellphone connection.
His film is set in the United States, but judging from TV, he says, America isn't any dumber than other nations. "There might be countries that think they're smarter than us. But I've seen German TV. I saw TV in Scandinavia. Their TV is every bit as dumb as ours, worse actually. The British TV we get to see is the best of what they've got."
As the time-traveling stranger in a strange land, he says, "Luke is really funny. I think because he's so good looking, casting people in Hollywood tend to want to put him in boyfriend roles. But he's really funny. He does really good imitations. He could have been in sketch comedy."
Saturday Night Live's Maya Rudolph plays a prostitute on loan to the Army's hibernation project. He knew she was funny, Mr. Judge says, but until she read for the part, he worried that, like some sketch comics, she might ham it up.
Instead, he says, "I thought her acting was very much like real movie acting. She definitely gets the big picture. She was really fun to work with and this is her first big part in a movie."
And until Dax Shepard of MTV's celebrity-prank series Punk'd auditioned, Mr. Judge had a different physical type in mind for Frito, Mr. Wilson's dim but lovable defense attorney and friend.
"I was imagining this big, heavy guy, but it wasn't working and then Dax came in and read for it. Driving home I was thinking about how funny he was. ... He has no fear of the camera or of being in a movie. He lets it all hang out in a really funny way."
In 1991, when none of the actors he auditioned met his needs for a late-added cameo in Office Space, he played it himself. His name in the credits was William King.
"I actually read for it on the camcorder and then looked at it. I did that for four parts on this movie, but I didn't get the part on any of them. There was always somebody better. I didn't make the cut."
Although he's had hit TV shows and moneymaking features, Mr. Judge can still walk around without turning heads.
"I don't get recognized that much," the genial Texan says. "I've sat in meetings with executives in MTV and Fox and I've walked out in the hall and they don't know me." And it's part of his charm that he likes it that way.
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Post by Librarian on Jul 30, 2004 18:59:07 GMT -5
Thanks Remi!
My favorite part of the article:
Wouldn't you love to hear more of those imitations. We've seen/heard him do Bob Dylan, Dennis Farina... and heard about him doing his dad.
Who else -- I know I am missing many.
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Post by texasgal on Jul 31, 2004 11:45:45 GMT -5
Thank you Remi, for posting that article. That was great! And yes, I'd love to see Luke in a role worthy of his talent. I think a lot of his roles to date have yet to tap his real talent. I'm sure we'll see more of it revealed in TWBS. Anyone remember an old article about Luke standing in line at a fast food place and striking up a conversation with other customers in the line? The article showed that Luke is really intelligent, articulate, and witty. Oh, if only I had been in the same place with a sudden Big Mac Attack!
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Post by texasgal on Aug 6, 2004 23:29:40 GMT -5
The entertainment section of Friday's San Antonio Express News always gives a list of movies to open in the next few months. There's one on today's list titled "Mr. 3000." Could this be Luke's previously titled "3001" movie? Mr. 3000 is shown as opening September 24. Considering this film just finished filming, it's impossible that this could be the same movie to open already on 9/24. It must be a different movie.
There's no mention of TWBS or TLA on this list. Not right now, but they could be added later I suppose.
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LukesGirl
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Post by LukesGirl on Aug 7, 2004 0:25:50 GMT -5
No, Mr. 3000 I think is a movie about a baseball player who hits 3000 homeruns and then retires. Then he lives large as some sort of legend until it is determined that a couple of his homeruns didn't count or something. I saw previews for it when I went to see either Spiderman 2 or Harry Potter, can't remember which. Luke would have to be Mr. 2504, I think they decided to cut the time down from 1000 years to 500 years. Or maybe that would be 2501. ;D
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Post by AlsoAVirgo on Aug 7, 2004 20:02:57 GMT -5
Yes, "Mr. 3000" is a baseball film starring Bernie Mac. The baseball scenes were shot here in Milwaukee at Miller Park--our baseball stadium. Bernie plays a Milwaukee Brewer!
Wish the Wilson boys would do some movies in the Midwest!!
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Post by Siberia on Dec 18, 2004 0:35:51 GMT -5
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Post by Natalie on Dec 18, 2004 5:57:28 GMT -5
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