Affleck Joins Bateman in Mike Judge's 'Extract'
Here's a movie that's getting stranger and stranger the more details we get -- and I'm loving it. First, Mike Judge's Extract was simply a movie that "explores what it's like to be the boss when everything seems to be shifting around you." Then it became about a guy who owns an industrial flower-extract plant and has to deal with workplace issues and a cheating wife. Now, it turns out that one of the "workplace issues" is an employee who loses a body part in a freak accident, and that the wife is cheating on the protagonist with a gigolo. Awesome.Jason Bateman plays the factory owner -- that, we already knew. We also knew that the amazing Kristen Wiig is playing the wife, and Mila Kunis another employee. The new info is that Clifton Collins, Jr. has joined the cast as the maiming victim, and Ben Affleck as an ambulance-chasing lawyer who, I'd imagine, wants to milk Bateman's character for all he's worth. No word on who's playing the gigolo.
I got pelted with poop for praising Mike Judge's last movie, the largely direct-to-DVD Idiocracy, the first time I wrote about this project, but I stand by comments. It would have been easy for Judge to do Office Space 2, but it's been gratifying to watch him go in some even more offbeat directions instead.
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8-21-2008 @ 11:17AM
Wayne said...
Kristen Wiig is far from amazing. Her work on SNL borrows heavily from Mo Collins work on Mad TV. I haven't seen Kristen do anything that I've found to be original or very funny. She was one of the low points of "Knocked Up".
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8-21-2008 @ 12:59PM
Robin said...
Wrong! She was the best part of Knocked Up (well, her and Alan Tudyk) and almost always makes me laugh on SNL. She's really the only really good cast member anymore.
8-21-2008 @ 11:56AM
Jonathan Kuhn said...
I wouldn't say you got "pelted with poo" last time. A few people disagreed, but they seemed to be saying that Idiocracy just wasn't for them.
I, however, loved it and am looking forward to what he can do with this cast.
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8-21-2008 @ 12:28PM
Mike said...
Well, I won't pelt you with anything, but I will say that I hope this is more Office Space than Idiocracy. The latter was just a bad, bad movie. I got the point, but that didn't make it any funnier.
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8-21-2008 @ 1:00PM
Robin said...
I friggin love Idiocracy AND Office Space and can't wait for this new one.
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