Mike Judge Talks New Live-Action Beavis And Butt-Head Film. Johnny Depp Hoped To Play Beavis
Obama chimpt-shirts.The Love Guru.These guys. “That f’inghat.” How many words are wasted criticizing, analyzing and decrying today’s world, when all we really need is a “This sucks!” delivered by an AWOLBeavisandButt-Head? Bring ‘em back. The brilliant creator of America’s foremost juvenile delinquents,Mike Judge, tellsMTVthat he’s finally considering a newBeavis and Butt-Headfilm, albeit a live-action one…
“The Three Stooges survived a lot of different guys with Shemp, Curly,” Judge reasoned. “I haven’t yet said, ‘OK, I wanna make a live-action “Beavis & Butt-Head” movie, and here’s the idea.’ But for some reason, I used to hate the idea for years, and now I think maybe there’s something there.”
“I was thinking about having aBeavis and Butt-Headmovie where they’re just 60-year-old winos. Just something different but with the same spirit of it, you know? A long time agoJohnny Depphad said to me-he really wanted to be Beavis-he said, if you ever do a live-action movie, he wanted to be Beavis. And he said he was doing [Don Juan DeMarco] withMarlon Brandoand he said Marlon Brando used to imitate Butt-Head and he would imitate Beavis, so I guess I’m thinking Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando. [smiles]”
The interviewer at MTV also suggested Sean William Scott for Beavis, a name that’s been brought up in the past for a live-action version. And if you remember, before the so-soBeavis and Butt-Head Do Americahit theaters, Adam Sandler was another. Thankfully that didn’t happen. My take is that Judge would need to cast younger.
Obviously Depp is the exception, but Sean William Scott is frankly old and too jockish for either character; the actors need to possess a fresher chemistry and more age appropriate look a laClark and MichaelorJake and Amir(click either to watch/laff). Judge,whose next filmis the comedyExtractwithJason Bateman, also mentioned that a B&B theme park ride has been discussed. Nachos, terrified fat Americans, barf and flies everywhere. That wouldnotsuck.
Discuss: Who would you choose to play Beavis and Butt-Head? Sexman and McLovin? Anyone? Anyone?
