Director/animator Mike Judge is responsible for Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, so we already like him, but his spot-on movie Office Space is half the reason we have this site in the first place. So we’re thrilled to hear that Judge has another project coming to the big screen. Extract (due sometime next year) stars Arrested Development alum Jason Bateman as a boss in an “evil twin sequel” to Office Space. Bateman’s character is a boss at a factory who hates his job and his life.
It’s a slightly new perspective on the workplace movie, and although we’re worried about Judge making a sympathetic boss character instead of fighting for the working class hero, he’s good enough at what he does that we think the final product will be worth seeing no matter what your employment status is.
Although this interview on Beliefnet is ostensibly about his new film The Music Within, it seems no reporter can talk to Ron Livingston without asking about his role as Peter in Office Space, the movie that launched a thousand disgruntled workers. Here’s what he had to say (interviewer’s question in bold):
I’m a firm believer in leaving the past in the past, but I have to ask about “Office Space.” Why do you think that film still resonates with so many people?
I think the fundamental story of that movie, which is about people trying to find where they fit in life, is just something everybody connects to. And the fact that [director] Mike Judge took it upon himself to make a movie about that without really trying to force a solution down everyone’s throat, and that he could do it in a lighthearted way, makes that movie still relevant to people. They just seem to like it.
We love you, Ron. Call us! Anyone who dumps Carrie Bradshaw on a Post-It will always be tops in our book.
