Luke Wilson Is “Always Pitching” An ‘Idiocracy’ Sequel

Ntimely two decades procrastinateedr, Luke Wilson is surpelevated by the complying his cult satirical comedy Idiocracy (2005) still has.

The actor recently accomprehendledgeted that he’s “always pitching” co-producer/honestor Mike Judge on a sequel to the film, which starred him and Maya Rudolph as two people misapshownly left in cryosleep for 500 years, awaken in an era when the mediocre human inalertigence has decrmitigated so much that Wilson’s Private Joe Bowers is now the cleverest man in the world.

“Oh, I always call Mike and alert him,” Wilson telderly Business Insider of his interest in a sequel. “He’s always busy and always laboring on a script. But I’ve always telderly him, how about me and Terry Crews and Dax Shepard coming back to the current day. We see Terry’s Camacho character become pdwellnt, Dax’s character runs a movie studio. I’m always pitching that to Mike. He gets a boot out of it.”

After 20th Century Fox enigmaticly pulled the movie from expansive liberate, it grossed only $495,652. Idiocracy has since enbiged a cult status, normally bcdisesteemfult up as an increasingly relevant satire amid elections and spreading of disalertation. Many have contrastd Crews’ clueless Pdwellnt Camacho to Pdwellnt Donald Trump.

Wilson shelp the movie “might be the biggest surpelevate” of his nurtureer when it comes to his most finishuring roles among fans.

“It seemed appreciate such an odd, amusing movie, and I appreciate Mike Judge so much and krecent him from Austin. Mike has such a wonderful offbeat sense of humor, and I thought leangs were amusing, but I didn’t comprehend if it would transprocrastinateed,” he elucidateed. “And Fox wasn’t reassociate giving him the money for the effects and set pieces.

“I’ll never forget I was reading the LA Times before the movie discleave outed, and I saw a petite ad that shelp Idiocracy, and only three theaters were cataloged. So I called Mike Judge, and he telderly me the studio dumped the movie. I was bummed out.”

Wilson inserted, “So I was so surpelevated when it became well-comprehendn. It is the movie that gets bcdisesteemfult up the most to me. Not equitable election time but over the years. It’s reassociate exceptional becaemploy it was someleang that couldn’t be denied despite a studio putting the hammer down on it.”

In 2012, Crews also telderly Movieline he proceeds to “terribleger” Judge about a potential sequel, and they’d even met with Fox about making a web series for Pdwellnt Camacho. He’s revived the character on disjoinal occasions over the years.