And yet another new action comedy movie on the Seth Rogen front. Pineapple Express, which is set to be released on August 8, 2008, will be the third of six 2008 films for Rogen. Rogen was also involved in the writing of the movie. James Franco stars alongside Rogen and the movie was co-written by Evan Goldberg, who also was involved in writing the writing of Superbad. Pineapple Express will be directed by David Gordon Green, who hasn’t had very much experience with directing.
Pineapple Express is the story of Dale Denton (played by Seth Rogen), a stoner who is in the process of turning into a self actualized adult along with his drug dealer, Saul, but both of them are slowed by poor habits. Saul and Dale, who is a stuck in neutral process server, inadvertently become witnesses in a drug related murder. However this unfortunate event turns out to be just what the two needed to break their bad habits and turn their life around. They find out that there is not a better motivator in life than being chased by a mob of fugitives.
Well I’m really undecided on this one at this point. There doesn’t seem to be enough details to determine what the final product will turn out like. However the storyline sounds like there will be plenty of opportunities for comedy to be thrown into the movie. Also there is always the Seth Rogen factor in the movie. As I’ve said before, it seems as though everything that Seth Rogen has recently touched has turned into cinematic gold. Nothing has happened to make me think otherwise at this point. Also Rogen and his co writer from Superbad returns so you know that the script will be well written and the comedy will be thoroughly entertaining. But there is always the inexperience of the director that can throw off a movie. Most of the cast also seems to be very inexperienced which is another concern for me. But we’ll see what happens when more details are released.
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