Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg directing Sega vs. Nintendo film
Growing up as a gamer during the '90s meant the Sega Genesis and Nintendo/Super Nintendo were my first introductions to video games. With the NES as my very first console, I wanted a Super Nintendo for Christmas one year. As fate would have it, Santa delivered not a gray-colored box, but a sleek, sexy black one: the Sega Genesis. Since then, my best friend Sonic the Hedgehog and I have sped through the next few generations of gaming, where I ultimately took my talents to Sony's PlayStation offerings. The rest, as they say, is history.
The '90s gaming scene was cutthroat, with Sega and Nintendo at the forefront of the so-called "console wars." As the infamous Sega ad read, "Genesis does what Nintendon't," which encapsulates what the entire first round of console wars was like, with Sega threatening to overtake Nintendo from their spot atop the gaming industry. Author Blake Harris will be publishing a book this summer focusing on Sega and Nintendo's rivalry entitled Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation.
Interestingly enough, the project has been greenlit for a film adaptation directed and written by none other than Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (This is the End, Superbad). The direction of the film will be entirely in the duo's hands, so expect some type of comedic tone to it. It'd be interesting to see who they get for the film, and exactly how the rivalry will be depicted. As long as Sonic is represented in the best light, that's all that I care about.
[via /Film]
Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg invite Sony to the Sausage Party
Seth Rogen (This is the End) and his writing partner, Evan Goldberg (This is the End), are throwing a Sausage Party and you're invited.
Sausage Party will be the pair's first venture into a feature-length animated film and will be based off of a story by the comedic duo and Jonah Hill (This is the End), written for the screen by Rogen, Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shaffir, and directed by Conrad Vernon (Monsters vs. Aliens) and Greg Tiernan. The film will be an R-rated romp into an anthropomorphic sausage going through an existential crisis, possibly following some marijuana cigarette smoking. I'm already predicting a surplus of "smoked sausage" jokes throughout the film, and I'm definitely not going to complain about a single one.
What we need are more R-rated animated films, and I truly believe Rogen and Goldberg can bring a fresh take on the genre. With a tentative 2015 release date scheduled, all of you have time to prepare for the Sausage Party.
[via /Film]