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Sausage Party: Seth Rogen on "Foodtopia" Series, Kristen Wiig Reaction

Sausage Party: Foodtopia star & executive producer Seth Rogen discusses the upcoming animated series, Kristen Wiig's script reaction & more.

Published Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:34:10 -0500

by Ray Flook

Last updated Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:39:14 -0500

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It was back in October 2022 when we learned that Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Amazon were teaming up for the upcoming animated sequel series Sausage Party: Foodtopia. Returning for the project are Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz, and Edward Norton, with Will Forte, Sam Richardson, Natasha Rothwell, and Yassir Lester joining the voice cast. Following his update on "The Boys" spinoff series Gen V, Rogen shared with Empire just how close the streaming series will stick to the hit film's comedic sensibilities – a nice way of saying that the original had us dropping our jaws while laughing our asses off. "There's one specific scene that had a special screening for the Amazon PR people," Rogen teased – saying to the Amazon executives, "'You should all just start wrapping your heads around this now. You'll probably have to talk about this a lot.'" Describing the series as "unbelievably shocking," Rogen shared how even the cast gets caught off guard by what's on the page. "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's co-screenwriters Ariel Shaffir & Kyle Hunter (who co-wrote the film's screenplay with Rogen & Goldberg) are on board as both executive producers and co-showrunners on the animated series. Rogen, Goldberg, James Weaver, and Alex McAtee will executive produce under their Point Grey Pictures banner. The film's co-director, Conrad Vernon, is on board as a supervising director on the series as well as executive producing. Annapurna Television's Megan Ellison & Patrick Chu, and Andrew Millstein also executive produce. Annapurna Television, Sony Pictures Television, and Amazon Studios will co-produce the series.

"Film used to be the superior art form to television, and we humbly reached the pinnacle of what can be achieved with film in our remarkable opus, 'Sausage Party,'" said Rogen and Goldberg in a statement when the series was first announced. "But now that film is completely dead, and TV is the forever-king of entertainment, we've decided to continue the epic adventures of our culinary crew in the soon-to-be-legendary televised masterpiece 'Sausage Party: Foodtopia.' It's got all the heart, double the puns, and triple the food-on-food sex. In other words, it's exactly what the world needs right now." Debuting to serious buzz at SXSW in March 2016, the R-rated film would shift to a large release to box office success. With a reported budget of $19 million, the animated film would go on to gross approximately $140 million worldwide.

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