Mike Judge sits in the directors chair on the set of Extract
Despite all of his success, Judge still seems surprised about the fervent fandom associated with his work. When one of the reporters mentioned that they saw someone dressed as President Camacho at Comic-Con, Judge seemed genuinely surprised.
"Oh yeah? Somebody dressed as President Camacho?" Judge inquired. "That's really cool. Wow. I've never heard of that."
He also talked about the casting process, in general, that, "it's the most painful part of the whole process because it's like going on an awkward date, every five minutes for 8 hours." He also talked about how that related to Extract and, although he doesn't normally think of actors when he's writing, this time he did.
"When I did the rewrite on Extract, because I had written it a long time ago, I was actually thinking about Jason Bateman," Judge said. "I gave it to him and he wanted to do it."
He also talked about how David Koechner's annoying neighbor character, Nathan, was loosely based on a real neighbor he once had.
"There was actually a woman and it was in a gated community," Judge explained. "She would just park herself (on the window of your car) and she would give you a choice, I probably shouldn't say this, but she would go on for 40 or 50 minutes or you would have to be really rude to her. Beyond that, the physical thing is you have to move the car at some point because her elbows were not leaving."
When it comes to the new DVD, Judge revealed he liked that he got to show the extra scenes featuring Ben Affleck.
"I actually like the extra longer scenes with Ben," Judge said. "Those were ones where, I'm a big believer of leaving them wanting more when you can and I was really into what he was doing there."
One of the great parts of this movie is that, amongst all these big stars, the one who probably steals the most scenes is the young newcomer Dustin Milligan, who plays the amateur gigolo Brad, and Judge told us he was almost not even in the film at all.
At dinner with Director Mike Judge
Judge also said that, every now and then, he does think about new ideas for Beavis and Butt-head.
"Yeah, definitely, things will come along," Judge said. "I had a thing where there was a rat that came into my kitchen. They pooped everywhere, ripped open bread, and I just wanted to kill this rat. I bought one of those Victory, old-school rat traps, and I just started thinking that Beavis and Butt-head versus a rat would be really good. Like they'd set the trap, but forget and go, 'Oh, cheese.'"
He also talked about a few future ideas he had for films, one of which being a project that he'd want Chris Elliot to star in.
"He moves to India to do a Bollywood movie and he ends up working tech support," Judge said, which drew some big laughs from that description alone to the assembled press corps.
The question also came up about a movie based on King of the Hill, but Judge doesn't think that will ever happen.
"I don't know if it lends itself to a movie the way The Simpsons does," Judge said. "I guess whatever the reason that is, would be the same reason they never made a Bob Newhart Show movie. The Simpsons was more cinematic to begin with anyway, just in the way they went crazy about the animation. King of the Hill is more inspired by classic television."
Mike Judge's hilarious new film Extract will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 22.
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