Though he’s known primarily as a comedic actor with plenty of roles in various films and shows over the years, Seth Rogen is also an incredibly prolific producer.
Two of the projects he produces – Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys” series and the CG animated adult comedy “Sausage Party” are getting series spin-offs shortly and Rogen promises both will be as boundary-pushing as their originators.
First up, Rogen spoke with Empire about the “Sausage Party: Foodtopia” series which will see members of the 2016 film’s original cast return including Kristen Wiig, Ed Norton, David Krumholtz and Michael Cera and are joined by the likes of Will Forte, Sam Richardson and Natasha Rothwell.
He says some of the stuff is so out there even his co-star Kristen Wiig was caught off guard at one point:
“There’s one specific scene that had a special screening for the Amazon PR people. [We told them] ‘You should all just start wrapping your heads around this now. You’ll probably have to talk about this a lot.’
We had Kristen Wiig in picking up a few lines the other day, and I think we’ve all become desensitized to it because we’ll just be like, ‘Roll the scene!’ and then she was like, ‘Oh my God?! This is insane!'”.
The original film follows an anthropomorphic sausage who lives in a supermarket and finds out the truth about what happens when groceries are purchased. Ariel Shaffir and Kyle Hunter serve as showrunners.
Rogen also teased Amazon’s “The Boys: Gen V,” the college-set spin-off to “The Boys” which Rogen tells the outlet has scenes that can go toe-to-toe with the most infamous moments from “The Boys”, such as that third season opening episode moment involving the ‘Termite’:
“‘Gen V’ has some really crazy s— in it. The fact that they’re in college they’re a little younger, makes it more shocking, maybe. In general, if you’re making an R-rated thing, they let you do whatever the f—- you want unless there’s some real legal thing that they think you might be bumping against.
With ‘The Boys,’ maybe it requires one extra five-minute phone call, where they’re like, ‘Really?’, and you’re like, ‘Really.’ There are other things you’re on hours of phone calls about that are so much less interesting than that.”
“The Boys: Gen V” is slated to premiere later this year, whilst “Sausage Party: Foodtopia” releases in 2024. Both will premiere on Prime Video.
