Pee Wee’s Playhouse – Paul Reubens Says New Film is Imminent

Pee Wee Herman, aka Paul Reubens, indicates that a new Pee Wee Movie could be nigh.

I was a huge fan of the original show Pee Wee's Playhouse, and watched religiously, especially the first 3 seasons. I was a young teen, and was really dazzled by the colors, crazy voices and characters, some who would become our best actors, like Laurence Fishbone and S. Epatha Merkerson.

Cowboy Curtis became Furious. And Morpheus.

Paul Reubens reminded me what a great actor he is in Blow opposite Johnny Depp. It was then that I began to remember Pee Wee's Playhouse for the piece of TV art that it was.

Now we can experience it in all its glory as the whole series is being released on Bluray. For people like me who saw it when it was on TV, it will be a whole new experience.

Reubens told Rolling Stone about how it was originally captured in a high quality format.

What a lot of people don't realize is, the show was shot on film. But it's never been seen on film — we'd shoot it and immediately transfer it to tape, then we'd edit it on tape and add the effects in on tape. The whole thing is then put on a "broadcast tape," for airing. You lose information and clarity the more you dupe, so in some cases, we're talking six generations of loss. We've cleaned all that up. I've spent over a year in a lab helping the folks putting this out with color corrections, helping them find the right source material for some of the effects — many of which they recreated from scratch for the Blu-rays.

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Exciting. Yes, the show was campy, but it was also beautifully executed and planned. The talking chair, the word of the day, the foil ball and ice cream cake pudding...I knew it was goofy, but that's what I loved about it. The inanimate objects that came to life were offset perfectly by Reubens' overly animated Pee Wee.

I was never as big a fan of the movie as I was of the TV show, because that set was excellent. It was ADHD before we knew that ADHD was a thing. Pee Wee could easily move from one topic to the next, one tangent to the next, and in it we saw the early glances of a distracted world.

The movie took Pee Wee out into the world, but I always wanted to stay in the playhouse. In a Rolling Stone interview, Reubens recalls the creation of the TV Playhouse, and talks about the music and the opening sequence.

the words "dream-like" and "hypnotic" were used a lot. I wanted kids to feel like they were being drawn into this world.

That's exactly how I remember it. I can clearly recall wanting to be at my TV set, ready to watch right when it came on, because I thought the intro was the coolest part.

The last word Rolling Stone asked for from Paul was on the possibility of a new movie.

One last question: There were some rumors going around that you were working on another Pee-wee movie. Any updates on that?
There’s going to be a big announcement any minute now.

Really?!?
Yes. It’s been months and months of being right on the verge of being announced…