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Pee-wee's Playhouse THE MOVIE


I wish they make a full length movie that take place in the universe of Pee-Wee's Play house with the lovable characters we came to loved back in the 80's show.

It would takes us in a world unlike the 3 previous Pee-Wee films.

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I disagree. The Playhouse works best on stage and the small screen. Part of the charm is that everything looks like it's done on a shoestring budget. For that reason, I don't think it would benefit from a big budget. In the past Reubens has discussed doing a film where the characters come out of the Playhouse and into the real world, but I just don't think that would work. In the real world, they lose their charm. It would be like if the Land of Make Believe Puppets suddenly turned up in the Neighborhood and started interacting with Mr. Rogers.

I hope the next film is the darker, Jacqueline Susann inspired film that Reubens has been talking about for over a decade.

It rubs the butter on it's skin, y'all.

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Oh.

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Pee Wee Herman ain't the Dark Knight.

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I personally do not care for Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Maybe because I'm not a 6 year old. But I think something like that already exists. See link below.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839648/

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You might be interested to know that what eventually became Pee-wee's Playhouse started out as a stage show intended for adults, one of which was aired as a special on HBO years before the movies and the CBS show. And even the CBS show can't be pinned down and simply being a simple kid's show with nothing beneath the surface.

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That's pretty common knowledge but even then I'm not sure what that has to do with wanting a Playhouse revival. Also the Saturday morning show was way more interesting and inventive than the HBO special, which gets a lot of love simply because it was the origins of Playhouse. If I had to choose, I'd say bring it back as an animated series due to Pee Wee's age. There's still a lot they could do with the premise and setting.

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I was only pointing out that Pee-wee's Playhouse isn't exclusively for kids because dpratt made that remark about Playhouse being for 6 year olds.

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I copied this from Wikipedia.

...In 2006 Reubens announced he was to start filming his second script in 2007.

The second film, a family friendly adventure, is called Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Movie by Reubens, and follows Pee-wee and his Playhouse friends on a road-trip adventure, meaning that they would leave the house for the first time and go out into "Puppetland". All of the original characters of the show, live-action and puppets, are included in Reubens' script. The story happens in a fantasy land that would be reminiscent of H.R. Pufnstuf and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In January 2009, Reubens told Gary Panter that the rejected first script of Pee-wee's Big Adventure (which they co-wrote) could have a movie deal very soon, and that it would be "90 minutes of incredible beauty". In December 2009, while in character, Reubens said this film is "already done, the script is already fully written; it's ready to shoot." Most of the film will take place in Puppetland and claymation might be used.

He has said that one of the two films opens in prison. He has also said that using CGI for "updating" the puppets' looks could be an option, but it all depended on the budget the films would have. Reubens once mentioned the possibility of doing one of the two as an animated film along the lines of The Polar Express, which uses performance capture technology, incorporating the movements of live actors into animated characters. Reubens approached Pee-wee's Big Adventure director Tim Burton with one of the scripts and talked to Johnny Depp about the possibility of having him portray Pee-wee, but they both declined.


Also see the thread called Why This movie wont be made.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837156/board/thread/77428601

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