{"id":80697,"date":"2025-08-13T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/80697\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:46:09","slug":"seth-rogen-says-pineapple-express-sequel-could-sell-to-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/80697\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen Says Pineapple Express Sequel Could Sell to Streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSeth Rogen<\/a> recently appeared on \u201cWatch What Happens Live\u201d and wrestled with the prospect of making a sequel to \u201cThe Pineapple Express<\/a>,\u201d his beloved 2008 stoner comedy that grossed more than $100 million at the worldwide box office. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMaybe,\u201d Rogen said when asked about making a sequel. \u201cWe can probably sell it to streaming or something\u2026 There could be [big demand]. You never know. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not great with sequels. It\u2019s not where my mind goes, but maybe one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRogen has avoided making sequels to a majority of his most iconic comedies, including \u201cSuperbad.\u201d However, there was a time when he considered making \u201cThe Pineapple Express 2.\u201d Rogen said on \u201cThe Howard Stern Show\u201d<\/a> years ago that he pitched a stoner comedy sequel but Sony Pictures wasn\u2019t interested, most likely due to budget concerns.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe tried to make one and thanks to the Sony hack you can actually find the email when Sony decided to kill the movie and not make it,\u201d Rogen revealed at the time. \u201cIt was something we were very open to several years ago, but Sony was not that interested in it\u2026 I think we probably wanted too much money. Studios, they don\u2019t like giving away money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRogen\u2019s comment was more or less confirmed by a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0from The Daily Beast, which leaked emails between \u201cPineapple Express\u201d producer Judd Apatow and former Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal that showed their sequel discussions. The report mentioned that Apatow allegedly wanted a $50 million budget for a sequel (nearly double the reported budget for the original movie), but Sony executives demanded it be kept at $45 million. Discussion for the sequel fizzled out after that.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Pineapple Express,\u201d directed by David Gordon Green from a script by Rogen and Evan Goldberg, stars Rogen as a process server and James Franco as his marijuana dealer. The two get stoned and witness a murder, prompting them to flee hitmen and corrupt police officers. Danny McBride, Gary Cole and Rosie Perez round out the cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhether or not a \u201cPineapple Express\u201d sequel gets made could also depend on Rogen and Franco, former collaborators who appear to be no longer friends.\u00a0Franco\u00a0told\u00a0Variety<\/a>\u00a0last year that their friendship is definitively over. Rogen told\u00a0The Sunday Times<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 that he did not plan to work with Franco again after sexual misconduct allegations made against Franco.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo. I haven\u2019t talked to Seth. I love Seth, we had 20 great years together, but I guess it\u2019s over,\u201d Franco told\u00a0Variety\u00a0in October 2024. \u201cAnd not for lack of trying. I\u2019ve told him how much he\u2019s meant to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked earlier this year by\u00a0Esquire<\/a>\u00a0about Franco\u2019s comment and how it felt \u201cto have something so personal become so public,\u201d Rogen did not want to discuss the topic outside of saying: \u201cHonestly, I absorb so little media that it really wasn\u2019t on my radar.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRogen and Franco got their starts together as cast members on NBC\u2019s short-lived cult classic \u201cFreaks and Geeks.\u201d They went on to star opposite one another in classic comedies such as \u201cPineapple Express\u201d and \u201cThis Is the End.\u201d Rogen produced and starred in Franco\u2019s 2017 directorial effort \u201cThe Disaster Artist,\u201d which ended up being their final project together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen recently appeared on \u201cWatch What Happens Live\u201d and wrestled with the prospect of making a sequel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,12649,56617],"class_list":["post-80697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-seth-rogen","tag-the-pineapple-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}