Pauly Shore hit his career stride in the 1990s, taking his spaced-out stoner-surfer California character to the big screen by starring in a string of movies that included “Encino Man,” “Son in Law,” “In the Army Now,” and “Jury Duty.” The last entry in this unofficial sub-genre: 1996’s “Bio-Dome,” in which Shore starred as Bud Macintosh, one of two slackers who wind up inside a desert-set environment simulation experiment (inspired by the real-life Biosphere 2).
“Bio-Dome” was a massive commercial and critical flop, earning $13 million and a 4% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It was one of the worst box office performers of Shore’s ’90s films, and one of his most critically savaged, too. Nevertheless, the stars of the film seem committed to making a sequel happen. “Pauly and I are ready, and I have the money now with my new company,” co-star Stephen Baldwin told Variety in 2017. “Let ‘Bio-Dome 2’ live!”
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In August 2021, Shore addressed the idea on the platform X, then known as Twitter. “I would definitely do the sequels to all my movies. I loved all my movies,” Shore said in a video. “Stephen Baldwin texts me every day, going, ‘let’s do Bio-Dome 2.'” Shore pointed out that while he and Baldwin are enthusiastic, the decision on a “Bio-Dome” sequel isn’t up to the actors, but rather the rights-holders, and he urged his followers to contact the studios to demonstrate interest in a reboot.
