‘Jay and Seth’ Still on the Horizon

Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse

It’s been about a year since we’ve heard anything about Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse, the film version of Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel’s 2007 viral video hit.  Now, in an interview with MTV News, Baruchel reveals the film is moving forward, but Rogen’s Green Hornet and a new hockey comedy stand in its way.

MTV Movies Blog:

• “They’re working on the ['Jay and Seth'] script right now,” said Baruchel. “All the concepts are there, all the beats are there, the treatment is there and a movie with us in it—we’ll improvise half the thing anyway, so it doesn’t matter.”
• “‘Jay and Seth’ will at the very least happen in the next year and a half for sure,” he added.
• “Seth and Evan are working on ‘The Green Hornet’ right now, and that’s just a big, massive undertaking that’s taking up all their time and effort.”
• “The minute [‘Hornet’] is finished, we go into production on one of two things,” Baruchel said. “We’ll either do ‘Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse’ or we’ll do this hockey movie that Evan and I wrote called ‘The Goon.’”
• “We’re putting the cast together [for ‘Goon’] as I speak,” he said. “I’m not going to screw myself and say who but I’ll say that needless to say they’re famous. It’s a Canadian hockey movie. Whichever one is closer to going, we’ll do.”

It looks like Baruchel has learned a lesson or two since the time he leaked Tropic Thunder’s Tom Cruise and (originally planned) Owen Wilson supporting roles. The writing team of Baruchel and Evan Goldberg sounds promising. We’ll keep an eye on any development news for The Goon.

Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse

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