The decision to not market Idiocracy was seen as unexpected, following the success of Office Space (1999), and led to speculation. 20th Century Fox was hesitant to promote the film, refusing to grant it a wide release and did not screen the film for critics. Idiocracy serves as a social satire that touches on issues including anti-intellectualism, capitalism, commercialism, consumerism, corporatocracy, dysgenics, and overpopulation. Filming took place throughout 2004 at Austin Studios and other cities in Texas. Judge finished the script for 3001 in 2001, rewriting the film a year later. The concept of Idiocracy dates back to a concept Judge envisioned in 1996. The cast includes Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long, Andrew Wilson, and Brad Jordan. Army librarian Joe Bauers, who wakes up five hundred years in the future after a botched government hibernation experiment to find himself in a dystopian society run by corporations, where evolution has made humanity stupid because people no longer had to be intelligent and physically fit to survive due to the benefits of technology. Idiocracy is a 2006 American sci-fi comedy film directed by Mike Judge and co-written by Judge and Etan Cohen.
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