We thought that the great Mike Judge – director of Office Space and Idiocracy - had completed casting for his new comedy, Extract (which should be subtitled, Please Go See This One This Time).
Well, we were wrong. But we’re pretty sure he’s finished now that Dustin Milligan has come on board.
Milligan, who can currently be seen flashing his best Blue Steel (or it might be La Tigra) in the revamped 90210, will play a dumb jock called Brad in the comedy, which also stars Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck and SNL’s Kristen Wiig.
Bateman will play the manager of a flower-extract plant who suspects that his wife (Wiig) is cheating on him. To prove his theory, he hires Brad, after being introduced by an equally dumb barman (Affleck), to seduce her, only to find that the dimwitted youth mistakes his conquest for true love.
Throw in Mila Kunis (mmm… Mila Kunis) and Clifton Collins Jr. (mmm… Clifton Coll… no! No! NO!), and it sure sounds to us like Judge should be able to extract - heh! Ho! Ha! - comedy from that premise! God, where do we come up with this stuff?
Don't answer that. Please don't. We have little enough self-respect as it is.