Seth Rogen Says No to SuperBad 2, Yes to Pineapple Express 2
When I talked to Jonah Hill a few weeks before SuperBad was released last year, I asked about a possible sequel. Hill responded “We talked about it. But also like the movie hasn’t come out yet. No one could go see it, and the talk would instantly go away of there being a sequel.”
And of course, SuperBad was a big hit, grossing over $169 million worldwide and who knows how much on DVD. So what are the chances we’ll get a SuperBad 2? Seth Rogen told moviehole that the studio has been after them to do a sequel ever since the film was released nearly a year ago, but they’ve ultimately decided not to make a sequel.
“They’re been wanting us to do a sequel to Superbad for so long – but we’ve held off,” Rogen said. “We eventually said No.”
But Rogen isn’t against the idea of sequels all together, adding that he would love to make another Pineapple Express if all goes well.
“If it did well, and they gave us like $50 million dollars, as opposed to the $26M we got for this one, we could benefit from that.”
And from what I’ve heard, Pineapple Express is already tracking pretty high. Everyone I know who has seen it has told me that people are going to love it. And I’m sure Sony will be asking for a sequel after opening weekend.
Green Hornet Scoop: Seth Rogen vs. Bruce Lee!
He’s already the unlikeliest leading man in Hollywood, but are you ready for Seth Rogen: Action Hero? He is, kinda, as he preps for his tights-wearing close-up in The Green Hornet, set for summer 2010. But do his Knocked Up fans even know the old comics or ’60s TV series?
“When you say The Green Hornet to people, the first thing anyone says is, ’Hey, Bruce Lee played [the sidekick] Kato on that show,’” Rogen told us recently, while out promoting The Pineapple Express.
Everybody knows the sidekick, see, but not the hero.
To introduce the world to Kato’s second fiddle, Rogen wrote the script with his Superbad and Pineapple partner Evan Goldberg. Here’s what they cooked up…
“For years we’d actually been trying to write a movie that was kind of about a hero and his sidekick,” Rogen said. “When we heard The Green Hornet movie was up for grabs, we thought that could be the most perfect way to do this story; he’s the only hero whose sidekick is actually more known than he is.”
But can the man known for making gay jokes and insulting Matthew Fox kick ass? He’ll just have to turn all his four letter words into explosions.
“In writing The Green Hornet, we have not hit many situations where you’re like, ’You know what would make this scene better, if Kato said c–ksucker.’”
Well, not yet, at least.
Jack Black’s Biblical On-Set Scoop
First, get used to that epic hair Jack Black and Superbad’s Michael Cera are sporting on the set of next summer’s time-travel comedy The Year One. Then you can focus on what theyand director Harold Ramisare saying about the Holy Land, Ghostbusters and whether Black is actually Cera’s father. Apparently, he’s not sure. Hit the clip and see what I mean.
Greg Mottola and Bill Hader Working on Vigilante Parody
Greg Mottola’s Adventureland is scheduled to hit theaters later this Summer, but everyone is wondering what the SuperBad director might be doing next. Mottola revealed at a Tribeca Film Festival sponsored Apple Store event that he’s writing a script with Bill Hader (who played a cop in SuperBad and is the owner of the amusement park in Adventureland).
“We’re writing a comedy about a doorman who, while watching all the comings and goings in his building, figures out that one of his tenants is the victim of a scam. And no one believes him, and no one cares,” Mottola explained. “So it’s basically a parody of vigilante movies. He’s going to right a wrong. He’s a man against the system, a lone wolf trying to fight crime. And we are writing it kind of as a parody of movies like Get Carter or Point Blank, with a little bit of Bourne Identity… in there. The big question right now is whether of not Bill will have a mustache. That’s what we spend most of our days trying to figure out.”