Pee-wee's Big Adventure
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| Name: | Pee-wee's Big Adventure |
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| Creator: | Paul Reubens, Phil Hartman, Michael Varhol |
| Date(s): | August 9, 1985 |
| Medium: | Movie |
| Country of Origin: | United States |
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Tim Burton in his feature-film directing debut. It stars Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol, along with E.G. Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, and Judd Omen.
Described as a "parody" or "farce version" of the 1948 Italian classic Bicycle Thieves, it tells the story of Pee-wee's nationwide search for his stolen bicycle.
After the success of The Pee-wee Herman Show, Reubens began writing the script for Pee-wee's Big Adventure when he was hired by the Warner Bros. film studio. Impressed with Burton's work on the short films Vincent (1982) and Frankenweenie (1984), the producers and Reubens hired him to direct.
The film was released on August 9, 1985, grossing over $40 million in North America. It became a cult film and continued to accumulate positive feedback. It was nominated for a Young Artist Award and was followed by two standalone sequels, Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016). Its financial success, followed by the equally successful Beetlejuice in 1988, prompted Warner Bros. to hire Burton to direct the 1989 film Batman.
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The first known Pee-wee's Big Adventure fanfic to be posted to AO3 was posted on November 11, 2014. The story, Five Things the Winchesters Didn't Kill, And One They Did (Sorta) by Edoraslass is a Crossover, crossing over Pee-wee's Big Adventure with Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marvel Comics, Men in Black, X-Men, Bravest Warriors, and The Addams Family.
Notable ships in the fandom are Pee-wee Herman/Reader from reader insert fics, and the same pairing from the Pee-wee's Playhouse fandom of Pee-wee Herman/Darchelle "Darcie" Rosenfeld, with Darchelle being an OC created by fanfiction writer, ILovePaulReubens.