Pee-wee Herman's 30-Year Journey From Obscurity, Through Infamy and Onto Netflix

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Netflix let it be known today that the long-awaited third Pee-wee Herman film, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, would finally make it to the … well, not the big screen, but a screen. Specifically any screen hooked up to a Netflix subscription.

The project has been in the works with producer Judd Apatow for nearly five years, but the original team—Pee-wee portrayer Paul Reubens and Arrested Development writer Paul Rust on script duties, Apatow producing—is now in place at Netflix.

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