Seth Rogen starred in Pineapple Specific in 2008, and followers of the film have been asking if there are plans for a sequel to revisit the characters.
Throughout an look on Watch What Occurs Dwell, host Andy Cohen learn a viewer query that requested if a follow-up movie of the buddy stoner motion comedy was a risk.
“Perhaps,” Rogen mentioned. “We are able to in all probability promote it to streaming or one thing.”
When Cohen famous that he thinks there’s “a giant demand” for a sequel, Rogen added, “There may very well be. You by no means know. I don’t know. I’m not nice with sequels. It’s not the place my thoughts goes, however possibly at some point.”
Rogen wrote the screenplay for Pineapple Specific alongside Evan Goldberg based mostly on a narrative by the writing duo and Judd Apatow, who additionally produced the film. David Gordon Inexperienced directed the movie which additionally starred James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosy Perez and Danny McBride.
A sequel was deliberate after the field workplace success of the “weed film,” however was scrapped resulting from finances.
“We tried to make one,” Rogen mentioned on The Howard Stern Present in 2020. “Because of the Sony hack, you’ll be able to truly discover the e-mail when Sony determined to kill the film and never make it. It was one thing we had been very open to a number of years in the past, however Sony was not that fascinated about it.”
In 2013, Sony launched a faux Pineapple Specific 2 trailer for April Idiot’s Day to advertise Rogen’s movie This Is the Finish.
A sequel for a movie starring Rogen and Franco will in all probability be onerous to do, provided that the actors are now not pals.
In 2018, a number of ladies accused Franco of inappropriate sexual behaviour. Extra accusations would develop into public, together with one which he ultimately settled, the place the actor was accused of intimidating college students into gratuitous and exploitative sexual conditions.
In an interview with Selection in 2024, Franco mentioned he and Rogen had been now not pals.
“No. I haven’t talked to Seth. I like Seth, we had 20 nice years collectively, however I assume it’s over,” Franco informed the publication. “And never for lack of making an attempt. I’ve informed him how a lot he’s meant to me.”
Rogen had initially supported his buddy, however he distanced himself from Franco as extra accusations got here up. In 2021, Rogen informed The Occasions, “I additionally look again to that interview in 2018 the place I remark that I’d hold working with James, and the reality is that I’ve not and I don’t plan to proper now.”
Though on the time Rogen didn’t say his relationship with Franco had ended, Rogen did say “it isn’t a coincidence” that their friendship modified amid the accusations.
“I don’t know if I can outline that proper now throughout this interview. I can say it, um, you already know, it has modified many issues in our relationship and our dynamic,” Rogen mentioned about his relationship with Franco.
