«He did direct the movie in character,» producer Seth
Rogen told the audience after the SXSW screening, «There were scenes where [he was] playing Tommy directing a movie as Tommy directing a movie as Tommy.
As The Hollywood Reporter notes,
Rogen told a post-screening audience at the Director's Guild Of America last night (October 7) he struggled with Franco staying in character for the duration of the shoot.
Not exact matches
And he just recently
told me that he is also a great Seth
Rogen impersonator, so maybe he'll give us a little taste of that at some point; we'll see if we can convince him.
The Disaster Artist is based on Greg Sestero's best - selling
tell - all about the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult - classic disasterpiece The Room («The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made»), and stars James Franco, Dave Franco, and Seth
Rogen.
At one point, when the couple is arguing over who's to blame for their situation,
Rogen's Mac
tells his wife that she has to be the responsible grown up.
By Joe Nerssessian King Arthur star Charlie Hunnam has
told how director Guy Ritchie first confused him with comedian Seth
Rogen when the actor approached him for a role in his latest movie.
She tweeted at Seth
Rogen and
told him so, and said that Kanye is a fan too.
Released: December 1 Cast: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth
Rogen, Alison Brie Director: James Franco (The Sound and the Fury) Why it's great: There are no half - measures with Tommy Wiseau, the failed actor / secret millionaire behind the notoriously awful cult drama The Room, and there are no half - measures in The Disaster Artist, James Franco's dramatic
telling of the film's bizarre backstory.
With improvisation high on the agenda, the stars riff off each other to
telling effect, and as they try to keep themselves occupied while the world as they know it changes irreparably, they try their hand at making an amateur sequel to the popular Pineapple Express, which featured Franco,
Rogen, McBride and Robinson in lead roles.
Directed by Seth
Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who also produce and share story credit with screenwriter Dan Sterling, the satire vowed to
tell the story of two journalists recruited by the CIA to use an upcoming interview opportunity to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong - un.
Apatow produced
Rogen and Goldberg's first forays into screenwriting, but they've gone separate ways, with Apatow clearly preferring to
tell conventionally romantic human interest stories and
Rogen - Goldberg displaying more of an appetite for genre - infused comedy.
«Seth and Evan had an incredibly unique way of writing dialogue in the way high school people spoke,» Judd Apatow
tells The Ringer of an early draft of the script which
Rogen and Goldberg had begun writing years earlier as high schoolers themselves.
The young man
tells both his best buddy Kyle (Seth
Rogen) and his girlfriend Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard).
Release: Friday, September 30, 2011 [Redbox] Joseph Gordon - Levitt and Seth
Rogen star in a precarious comedy about a young man whom is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer and whom is
told has a 50 - 50 chance of survival.
In the new trailer,
Rogen is in hell, confronting Satan (Ike Barinholtz), who
tells the comedian, «Your eternal suffering begins now.»
Actor Seth
Rogen and his friend Will Reiser
tell Simon Hattenstone why they've invented a whole new film genre: cancer comedy
Seth
Rogen (Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Kung Fu Panda) plays Ronnie Barnhardt, a mall security guard suffering from a biploar disorder, who causes about as much havoc as the delinquents he is
told to keep from the premises.
This time, Po's mentor, the diminutive Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman),
tells Po it's time for him to step into his destined role as the Dragon Warrior by serving as teacher to the members of his own team: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Mantis (Seth
Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu) and Crane (David Cross).
The narrative attempts to
tell a bizarre funhouse mirror version of a rags to riches story of a crazy director with no talent who becomes a celebrity in spite of himself by making a terrible movie badly, but Franco and his cadre of famous friends (his brother Dave, Alison Brie, Zac Efrton, Seth
Rogen, and so on and so on) seem far too tickled making shot for shot remakes of scenes from The Room to latch onto anything beyond an extended SNL skit.
Franco announced earlier this year that he would be working with Seth
Rogen on a film adaptation of the book The Disaster Artist, which
tells the behind - the - scenes story of the making of Tommy Wiseau's notoriously terrible cult 2003 movie The Room.
The film stars Franco opposite Megan Fox, Seth
Rogen, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jacki Weaver, Joey King and Dave Franco and
tells the story of a cinephile who climbs the ranks of 1970's Hollywood and gets caught up in a dangerous romance.
The artist
tells Artspace about his architectural - sculptural hybrids and explains why he's a Seth
Rogen fan.