Pee-wee Herman funding, a finished script, and a director lined up. Reubens is also developing a new TV show, which he says could potentially be an update on the popular "Pee-wee's Playhouse". He added that a more-detailed announcement is "imminent." Reubens told "Short of something unforeseen like the studio going out of business, I think it's very likely both these projects will happen next year." In 2014, it was announced that the film will be on Netflix. Paul Reubens confirmed in a January 2009 interview with "Swindle" magazine that there are indeed negotiations under way for the Pee-wee Herman stage show to
Paul Reubens fake food, to lamps", although he did do some dubbing and took small parts in films such as 1992's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and Tim Burton's "Batman Returns" (Reubens portrayed the Penguin's father) and 1996's "Matilda" and "Dunston Checks In". In 1993, he voiced for a character in another one of Burton's productions, "The Nightmare Before Christmas". (Reubens would later voice Lock for the video game "" in 2004.) Reubens dated actress Debi Mazar in 1993 after he started attending film premieres with her. Reubens has since credited Mazar with ending his depression from his arrest. During the mid-1990s, Reubens