Mike Judge, the sharp-witted mind behind Idiocracy, Office Space, and Silicon Valley, is finally stepping back into the director’s chair after a 15-year hiatus. His new film, Automatic Trucking, blends cutting-edge tech with old-school grit in a cross-country road movie that pits automation against human instinct — with a healthy dose of satire in the mix.
The film is set to star a familiar face from The Boys, currently in negotiations for the lead role. Jack Quaid will play a young engineer who pitches an ambitious fully-automated trucking system to a Silicon Valley billionaire. But in a twist that feels very on-brand for Judge, the engineer is forced to team up with an actual long-haul trucker and prove the tech works — by hitting the road the old-fashioned way, en route to the International Truckers Expo.
The screenplay comes from Silicon Valley writers Rob Turbovsky and Matteo Borghese, working from Judge’s original concept. Given the creative pedigree, Automatic Trucking promises more than just laughs — it looks set to poke fun at tech-world arrogance, class divides, and the all-too-real tension between innovation and obsolescence.
With Judge’s knack for timely satire and his track record for turning the mundane into comedy gold, Automatic Trucking may well be the smart, irreverent road trip we didn’t know we needed. After all, who better to chart the absurd route between Silicon Valley dreams and blue-collar reality?
