It's been a while since we've heard anything, but now we know when Pee-wee Herman will make his latest return, this time with Netflix original movie Pee-Wee's Big Holiday. As referenced in the teaser below, the film's launch date is March 18.
Little is still known about the film, which has longstanding Pee-wee fan Judd Apatow as producer, save that it'll see the helium-voiced main character (portrayed as always by Paul Reubens) meeting a stranger and deciding to take a trip. The likes of Joe Manganiello, Alia Shawkat and David Arquette are all in the cast.
Should you be unaware, Herman was big news in the US in the 1980s, with the Saturday morning show Pee-Wee's Playhouse running on CBS from 1986 until 1990. It was mad. Laurence Fishburne was in it. Tim Burton's Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (and its non-Burton sequel Big Top Pee-Wee) followed, but then there was the unfortunate incident in the disreputable Florida movie theatre, and suddenly Reubens was no longer a children's entertainer...
In recent years though, he's been having a bit of a renaissance. There was a one-man show on Broadway; sell-out festival screenings of Big Adventure; and Pee-Wee's Playhouse, The Pee Wee Herman Show and the two movies are already playing to enthusiastic audiences on Netflix.
“Judd and I dreamt up this movie four years ago,” says Pee-wee. “The world was much different back then — Netflix was waiting by the mailbox for red envelopes to arrive. I’ve changed all that. The future is here. Get used to it. Bowtie is the new black.” Reubens wrote the script with Paul Rust, and John Lee directed what we can only assume is wacky madness.