“They’re been wanting us to do a sequel to ‘Superbad’ for so long – but we’ve held off. We eventually said no. But this one, it’s not a precious coming-of-age story like ‘Superbad,’ it’s a weed action-movie and 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,” said Seth Rogen. Throw enough money at Rogen and he will make “Pineapple Express 2,” but not “Superbad,” cause that one is rather close to our hearts. Hollywood should take note.
Speaking of careers going deep into an unfunny toilet, Rogen mentioned inflated comedy director Kevin Smith in the same interview. Rogen took time out of discussing his extreme amount of wealth and upcoming “Green Hornet” project to take a passive agressive shit on Smith, “I didn’t realize until I started working on[‘The Green Hornet’] that [Kevin] had written a whole draft-and was gonna direct it. It just fell apart. He told me his idea, I told him my idea-they could not be more different. I think we’ve got a little more freedom than he did-with the material and so on-which, you know, is great for us![laughs]”
Lets paraphrase this, ‘I didn’t realize that I had more juice than Kevin Smith did back in his heyday. Hey, I’m awesome!”
Sorry Kevin, if worse comes to worse you could always move in with Rogen, if you can handle watching him cashing his multi-million dollar checks while you struggle to greenlight “Mallrats 4.” Does this mean the “Zach And Miri Make A Porno” press days are going to be interesting?