Comments on: Paul Reubens Talks Todd Solondz’ Life During Wartime

By: tol

tol — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:10:12 +0000

Todd Solondz is by far the most interesting director working in this country. Instead of getting sucked into convention, his movies become more challenging and complex as he gets older. I’m sure I’m going to be waiting for this movie for years as I did with Palindromes. I think Reubens and Solondz are a match made in heaven. I hope, for the benefit of cinema history, that this movie gets made.

By: Hunter Stephenson

Hunter Stephenson — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:56:27 +0000

@Red&Jonny

Excellent point. Reubens has avidly pitched his two Pee-Wee flicks around Hollywood and to the press for a good year now, with Johnny Depp recently conveying interest. A film with Solodnz would no doubt be picked up by talk radio et al if one of the new Pee-Wee films was released with a PG-rating, as Reubens plans to do. Reubens should avoid this project at all cost imo…or sacrifice his signature character/bread&butter.

By: RedandJonny

RedandJonny — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:58:19 +0000

I’m guessing he might be a grown up Mark Weiner.

TBH….I’m kinda surprised that Ruebens (with all his past legal troubles) would attach himself to a flick by a director who seems to specialize in films about pedophiles.

By: TheDohDoh

TheDohDoh — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:21:32 +0000

Solodnz gets credit though, for doing the ever-morphing main character as seen and praised in I’m Not There with his Palindromes (a movie that is seriously effed up). He also did teen pregnancy before Juno, and is one of the last dark, truly uncompromising indie directors around.

When I heard about this flick it sounded like Solodnz was hard up for cash and needed the recognition that Welcome to the Dollhouse awarded him to be resurrected in the press. But now he’s crossing storylines and changing actors, and clearly this film will make five dollars. He has a bit of a career-destructing ethic I think.

Paul Reubens is forever Pee-Wee Herman. Hopefully Reubens concentrates on getting those follow-up films made instead.