Jack Black And Mike Judge Might Be Working Together On New Film

Mike Judge might be known as the creative mind behind Beavis And Butt-Hand along with King of The Hill. Yet, Judge is an accomplished comedy directors with excellent credits like Office Space and the sci-fi idiot comedy Idiocracy.

Judge while on Howard 101 for Celebrity Super-Fan Round Table let it slip he had just come from a meeting with Jack Black. He went on to confirm it was for an untitled movie project. Considering Mike hasn't done an animated movie since Beavis And Butt-Head Do America, it's likely it will be live-action.

It's been an odd comedy road for Jack Black in the last couple of years. It would be interesting to see Black return to strong raunchy/dark comedy which Judge's material seems to inhabit. The project's plot is currently unknown but I assume the supporting cast could be equally interesting. My hope is that Judge would return to genre comedy perhaps staying in the science fiction arena.

Steve Pink To Direct Toxic Avenger & Robot Uprising

 Deadline reports Steve Pink will write and direct remake/reboot of the Toxic Avenger. Pink is best known for directing interesting high concept comedies like Accepted and Hot Tub Time Machine. He's also wrote films like Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity. It looks like the plan is to make Toxie more family friendly and most likely will lose it's edge that Troma created. That's unless the studio ends up going for violent and raunchy which Pink could definitely provide.


In other Steve Pink news i09 reports that he'll team-up with Jack Black to make Robot Uprising based on the novel How To Survive A Robot Uprising by Daniel H. Wilson. Robopocalypse, another novel by Daniel H. Wilson is also being turned into a film by Steven Spielberg. While I haven't read the book it seems like it could be the robot version of Zombieland.