Jerry Seinfeld Believes That the Universe Is Telling Him to Make Another ‘Bee Movie’
While the cast of Seinfeld never reunited outside of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and, God willing, there will dangerously close to hooking up with a human woman.
As we’ve mentioned already, Seinfeld’s 2007 CGI animated family comedy Bee Movie is currently near the top of the Netflix Top 10 chart, which is both a good sign for Seinfeld, and a terrible sign for the quality of Netflix’s current catalogue.
Seinfeld’s longtime collaborator and soup aficionado Spike Feresten, who co-wrote Bee Movie, recently guested on Radio Andy’s The Julia Cunningham Show on SiriusXM. During the interview, the writer revealed that Seinfeld just proposed making a sequel to their 18-year-old animated project. Why? Well, apparently, we have the mysterious forces of the universe to blame.
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For starters, Feresten distanced himself from the creepy sexual overtones of the film, and claimed that he even tried to stop the other writers from penning a human-bee love story. “I want to go on record and say, in the writers’ room, I kept saying to these guys, these two characters that you call ‘Barry’ and ‘Vanessa’ are not people,” Feresten explained. “They are not the same size. One is a bee. One is a woman. (But) they did not care. They did not care back then. But I was the voice of reason. I kept going, ‘You’re not thinking straight you guys.’”
He also described how, during a recent tennis lesson, his coach stumbled upon a bee sitting on top of a tennis ball. This was distinctly reminiscent of a scene from Bee Movie in which Seinfeld’s character, Barry B. Benson, clings to a ball for dear life during a tennis match.
Naturally, Feresten texted the photo of the real-life bee to Seinfeld. “I send the picture to Jerry. He goes, ‘Oh my god,’” Feresten recalled. “He goes, ‘We gotta make a sequel,’ and he puts it on Instagram with a shot of the poster of the bee on the ball.” In his post, Seinfeld also cited the movie’s recent Netflix popularity, and suggested that the tennis ball incident was “clearly a sign” that they have to make a sequel. And he floated the idea that Bee Movie 2 could be “live-action.”
Feresten noted as well that his friend was particularly happy that their cartoon bee was sized correctly in the scene. “The proportions were right, Spike. We got it, we got it right!” Seinfeld bragged. “I go, ‘Who cares? Who cares?’” Feresten recounted.
If they do end up making a live-action sequel to Bee Movie, hopefully that means that the role of Barry will now be played by an awkwardly ziplining Jerry Seinfeld in a bee costume, as we were all promised during the 2007 Cannes film festival.
