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

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Nearly two decades later, Luke Wilson is surprised by the following his cult satirical comedy Idiocracy (2005) still has. The actor recently admitted that he’s “always pitching” co-writer/director Mike Judge on a sequel to the film, which starred him and Maya Rudolph as two people mistakenly left in cryosleep for 500 years, awaken in an era when the average human intelligence has decreased so much that Wilson’s Private Joe Bowers is now the smartest man in the world. “Oh, I always call Mike and tell him,” Wilson told Business Insider of his interest in a sequel. “He’s always busy and always working on a script.

But I’ve always told him, how about me and Terry Crews and Dax Shepard coming back to the present day. We see Terry’s Camacho character become president, Dax’s character runs a movie studio.

I’m always pitching that to Mike. He gets a kick out of it.” After 20th Century Fox mysteriously pulled the movie from wide release, it grossed only $495,652.

Idiocracy has since developed a cult status, frequently brought up as an increasingly relevant satire amid elections and spreading of disinformation.