Cinema Science

Chud has an interview with Judd Apatow about the movie Knocked Up. The article includes a bit about David Gordon Green's next film Pineapple Express, which Apatow wrote. Excerpts below; read the full interview here

Devin Faraci: You also wrote Pineapple Express.

Judd Apatow: I have a story credit. It’s an idea I had for a movie a year ago and I wrote the story with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who wrote Superbad. They wrote the screenplay. That’s just a big, funny, marijuana-infused action movie which is basically inspired by the idea of ‘What if you did a movie like Bad Boys where the two leads were as high as Brad Pitt in True Romance?’

DF: And you have James Franco back in the fold for that. He has a cameo in Knocked Up, but he’s a lead in Pineapple Express.

JA: We’re excited to be working with James Franco again. We always knew he was really, really funny but he hasn’t chosen to make a comedy. He’s riotously funny in this, so I’m excited to surprise people with how funny he is. And David Gordon Green is directing.

DF: He’s such a great director. He’s one of my favorites.

JA: It’s been a lot of fun. We try to choose directors who will bring a completely different artistic bent to these movies, so Greg Mottola, who did The Daytrippers, directed Superbad, and it’s just way better than it ever should be. We’re making the shocking choice to hire artists to direct our R-rated comedies.