Seth Rogen Says Kool-Aid Plot In "The Studio" Was Inspired By "The Green Hornet"

I worked as a background extra in The Interview in the scene where Seth Rogen and James Franco talk on the steps of the Robson Square in Vancouver. I got to witness his comedic skills improvising scenes with a new way of doing each take.

In The Studio, Seth Rogen’s new Apple TV+ comedy, the ridiculous becomes reality when a film studio greenlights a blockbuster about… Kool-Aid. It’s a pitch so absurd that it could only come from Hollywood — and Rogen knows this firsthand.

Matt Remick (Rogen), a film-obsessed exec, inherits the Kool-Aid project and tries to inject it with creative purpose. The twist? Martin Scorsese (playing himself) coincidentally pitches a film about Jonestown — yes, the mass suicide where followers drank poison-laced Kool-Aid. Naturally, the studio scrambles to reverse-engineer a franchise from that, hoping Scorsese won’t notice he’s directing a branded beverage movie.

Rogen based the insanity on his real-life experience making The Green Hornet, where studio mandates smothered originality. “We learned how handcuffed we were by the things that had to be in it,” he says. “I had to work at a newspaper. I had to have a secretary named this. I had to have a guy named this who was my mean boss. None of those were ideas we would have arrived at on our own.”

That same creative frustration fuels The Studio. From performative casting debates to IP-driven chaos, the show is a hilarious, brutally honest look at how studios turn brands into movies — and often leave artistry behind.

Visit Dan Lalonde Films For All Technology And Entertainment News

Source: Variety

Photo Credit: AppleTV+/Sony