MORE ON THE RETURN OF BEAVIS & BUTT-HEAD
I know that this is only peripherally related to metal, but the response to that new Beavis & Butt-Head short the other day was so overwhelmingly positive that I thought you’d all like to know about this.
Cinema Blend recently conducted an interview with B&B creator Mike Judge in which they asked him if we’d ever get to see an actual re-visitation of his most famous creation. His answer?
“I don’t ever want to close the door on that, but it seems like a couple of times when I’ve done interviews and say I’ve thought about, I go on the internet and see a headline that says I’m starting on the sequel. If I did do another movie, I wouldn’t think of it as a sequel, it’s just another. I don’t think of the Cheech and Chong movies as sequels. If they didn’t take so long– it would take at least two years, and I haven’t had two years to spare in a while. It is fun to do again. I worry that as I get older my voice is going to change, so I don’t sound the same. But it was fun doing this one.
“Occasionally I’ll get an idea. A while back, I was thinking, God it would be so fun to just have them working tech support. They’re the guys you get when you call. I started writing stuff down. The guy who I co-wrote the first draft of Idiocracy with, Etan Cohen, the whole time we were working on that script, we kept getting distracted thinking of Beavis and Butthead stuff. He was buying a new car, going through that process, and they started writing something about them wandering on a lot and trying to buy a Mercedes.”
Holy shit, the idea of Beavis & Butt-Head doing tech support is BRILLIANT. ‘Cause I’m fairly certain that a decent number of the dudes who do tech support are, in fact, about as bright as those two knuckleheads. But he’s right about his voice changing – Vince and I were just saying last night that Beavis doesn’t sound the way he used to. Sad.
My guess? If Judge’s new movie, Extract (which opens today) tanks, we could see Judge return to these beloved characters sooner rather than later. ‘Cause Mike Judge has kids to feed, y’know?
-AR
