<\/p>\n
Superbad<\/em> is a quintessential high school hang-out movie, but co-writer Seth Rogen opines it would never get made today as it was back in 2007.<\/p>\n In a recent interview with The New York Times<\/a><\/em>, The Studio <\/em>co-creator was asked if the entertainment industry has become averse to risk.<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYeah, 100 percent. Superbad<\/em> is a good example. When we made that movie, they bought our script, they said it would have a $20 million budget and it would start shooting that year and would come out in August of the following year. That\u2019s it,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cWe cast the movie, we found a director for the movie, we made it according to their schedule and we released it on the date they chose,\u201d the four-time Emmy winner continued. \u201cThat would never happen today in a hundred million years. No studio would just buy a script, give it a release date, cast it and then make it.\u201d<\/p>\n Rogen lamented that Hollywood now places greater value on name recognition and the popularity of those involved with a given project.<\/p>\n \u201cNow everything has to be in place before they\u2019ll decide whether or not they\u2019re making it:\u00a0Who\u2019s the director? Who are the actors? Are they famous enough? Do they have big enough names? If not, then we\u2019ve got to get different ones, or else we won\u2019t make it. And I know we want it to start shooting in April and release it next summer, but if we don\u2019t have the right actors, we\u2019re not going to do that, because we think these actors will get us more money than these actors, even though they might not be the funniest actors for the role<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cNot to say you won\u2019t ultimately get to the funniest people for the role, but you\u2019ll have to go through an incredible process that is all due to risk aversion. [The former head of Sony] Amy Pascal was willing to say: \u2018Make this movie. You\u2019ll put the funniest people in it. That will make the best version of the movie, and the best version of this movie is what will make us the most money.\u2019 That is not said anymore in Hollywood,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n When asked about the recent box office triumphs of horror pics Obsession<\/em> and Backrooms<\/em> (both from young, YouTube-hailing writer-helmers), the Pineapple Express<\/em> co-writer noted it \u201ctotally fits in line with advice that I\u2019ve been giving people for years,\u201d revealing he met with the latter\u2019s director, 20-year-old Kane Parsons, four years ago.<\/p>\n \u201cI think by definition it is a volatile industry. The one defining feature of Hollywood from my experience is that every few years there\u2019s a tectonic shift. Thank god it\u2019s not really my job to be overly invested in these trends. I\u2019m able to keep my head down, and we\u2019re aware of them, and we\u2019ll ride the waves if it fits in with our own creative ambitions,\u201d Rogen added later.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Superbad is a quintessential high school hang-out movie, but co-writer Seth Rogen opines it would never get made today as it was back in 2007. In a recent interview with The New York Times, The Studio co-creator was asked if the entertainment industry has become averse to risk. More from Deadline \u201cYeah, 100 percent. Superbad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2459272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[305028,22860,311180,456723],"class_list":["post-2459271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment-industry","tag-hollywood","tag-seth-rogen","tag-superbad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Seth-Rogen-Laments-Hollywoods-Risk-Aversion-Says-\u2018Superbad-Would-Never.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459273,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459271\/revisions\/2459273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2459272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}