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Knocked Up Duo Stays Fertile, Fights Suit
The tag-team behind Knocked Up has another bun in the oven.
Fresh off the huge critical and box-office opening of their baby-making comedy, Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow have secured a release date for their next collaboration, Pineapple Express.
The stoner comedy starring and cowritten by Rogen and produced by Apatow has been given an Aug. 8, 2008, release date by Sony.
The flick will also reunite them with Freaks and Geeks cohort James Franco. In the movie, Rogen once again plays to type as a dead-end pot-happy slacker, with Franco as his like-minded buddy. The twosome inadvertently witness a drug-related murder and are forced to go on the run from a gang of dirty cops.
"It's like a weed action-comedy but with an oddly emotional friendship story," Rogen explained to Entertainment Weekly. "We tried to retain all of our emotional credibility from Knocked Up and Superbad and slide it into the weed action-comedy genre. It's a very strange, awesome action movie."
Also onboard Pineapple Express is Gary Cole, Rosie Perez and Danny McBride. Indie-film vet David Gordon Green will direct. Rogen cowrote the film with longtime writing partner Evan Goldberg.
The film's primo release date comes after Knocked Up's big weekend debut. Despite facing off against Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Knocked Up raked in $30.6 million in second place, easily recouping for Universal, in just three days, the entire cost of making the film. The film, which garnered thumbs-up from nearly every major critic, is expected to remain strong for several weeks. Sony is no doubt hoping for a repeat of fortune, particularly with Rogen's star on the rise.
He has a key supporting part in the upcoming Superbad, another R-rated raunchfest that he Rogen and Goldberg penned.
The buzzed-about film, starring Arrested Development's Michael Cera and Jonah Hill as slacker high school students named Seth and Evan, is due out Aug. 17.
As for Apatow, he recently signed on to produce the upcoming Year One, a comedy with some familiar faces. Harold Ramis, who appears in Knocked Up, will direct and coproduce, while Cera is set to star alongside Jack Black.
While Pineapple Express won't have a Pirates of the Caribbean sequel to battle, it will have some tough competition, opening against Hellboy 2 and the Brendan Fraser flick Journey 3-D.
Meanwhile, Apatow, who directed and wrote Knocked Up, is defending his comedy from charges of stealing the plot from a Canadian journalist.
Rebecca Eckler filed a federal copyright-infringement lawsuit in January claiming Apatow's swiped major elements from her 2005 book, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be.
The book recounts her own story of being a young reporter who accidentally gets pregnant after a drunken evening. (View the lawsuit.)
Apatow, however, denies plagiarizing Eckler. "The book is about a woman who gets pregnant by the fiance that she loves on the night of her engagement party," he said in a statement. "The film is about a one-night stand between a pot-smoking slacker and an ambitious young woman that leads to a pregnancy and their attempts to get to know each other.
"Anyone who reads the book and sees the movie will instantly know that they are two very different stories about a common experience."
The trial is tentatively slated to begin in Los Angeles in March 2008.
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