--- title: Pee-wee Herman is Coming Back to the Big Screen description: After years of speculation, Comedian Paul Reubens confirmed another Pee-wee Herman movie is in development. canonical: https://time.com/3550738/pee-wee-herman-movie/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-31T11:43:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:08:50.711Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Pee-wee Herman is Coming Back to the Big Screen og:description: After years of speculation, Comedian Paul Reubens confirmed another Pee-wee Herman movie is in development. og:url: https://time.com/3550738/pee-wee-herman-movie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd428672a4f26639b/698763af5f570f2bdbb1304b/ap120414177325.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: NY: 10TH ANNUAL TV LAND AWARDS ARRIVALS og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pee-wee Herman is Coming Back to the Big Screen twitter:description: After years of speculation, Comedian Paul Reubens confirmed another Pee-wee Herman movie is in development. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd428672a4f26639b/698763af5f570f2bdbb1304b/ap120414177325.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Pee-wee Herman is Coming Back to the Big Screen  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Oct 31, 2014 11:43 AM UTC  New York - Actor Paul Reubens as his character 'Pee-wee Herman' attends the 10th Annual TV Land Awards at the Lexington Avenue Armory on April 14, 2012, in New YorK, NY. New York - Actor Paul Reubens as his character 'Pee-wee Herman' attends the 10th Annual TV Land Awards at the Lexington Avenue Armory on April 14, 2012, in New YorK, NY.Anthony Behar—BEHAR ANTHONY/SIPA  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Oct 31, 2014 11:43 AM UTC It’s official: Pee-wee Herman is [coming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQT8tZ3AFgk) back to theaters. After years of speculation, comedian Paul Reubens confirmed Wednesday on _The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_ that another Pee-wee Herman movie is in development. Judd Apatow will produce and a director has been hired, though Reubens did not say who that is. The return of the much-loved man-child character comes more than 20 years after the release of _Big Top Pee-wee_ in 1988, a sequel to the children’s classic _Pee-wee’s Big Adventure_. Reubens briefly retreated from public view after he was arrested in an indecent-exposure scandal in 1991, but speculation about a new Pee-wee film has been rampant for years. Reubens said production of the film will begin in February. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3550738/pee-wee-herman-movie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3550738/pee-wee-herman-movie/"},"headline":"Pee-wee Herman is Coming Back to the Big Screen","datePublished":"2014-10-31T11:43:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:08:50.711Z","description":"After a more than two decade hiatus","url":"https://time.com/3550738/pee-wee-herman-movie/","keywords":["movies","Comedy","jimmy fallon","Judd Apatow","Movie"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd428672a4f26639b/698763af5f570f2bdbb1304b/ap120414177325.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd428672a4f26639b/698763af5f570f2bdbb1304b/ap120414177325.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NY: 10TH ANNUAL TV LAND AWARDS ARRIVALS","caption":"NY: 10TH ANNUAL TV LAND AWARDS ARRIVALS","creditText":"Anthony Behar—BEHAR ANTHONY/SIPA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3550738/pee-wee-herman-movie/","name":"Pee-wee Herman is Coming Back to the Big Screen"}}]}] ```