The Marvel Cinematic Universe has satisfied countless Hollywood A-listers to take part in its sprawling superhero saga over the previous 15 years. But don’t anticipate Seth Rogen to hitch the steady any time quickly.
In a brand new interview with Polygon, Rogen defined that he’s hesitant to work on a large franchise because of fears about compromising the writing course of he has developed with longtime companion Evan Goldberg.
“Honestly, probably fear,” Rogen stated when requested about what has stopped him from making a Marvel or DC film. “We really have a pretty specific way we work; me and Evan [Goldberg] have been writers for 20 years at this point. It’s a fear of the process, honestly. And I say that knowing nothing about the process. There are a lot of Marvel things I love.”
While Rogen and Goldberg have written and produced quite a lot of comedian e book properties together with “The Boys” and “Preacher,” they’ve all the time managed their initiatives as producers. (Rogen additionally starred within the critically-panned 2011 film “The Green Hornet,” which he co-wrote with Goldberg). That permits them to manage their writing course of — a privilege that Rogen says they’re unwilling to surrender.
“It’s mostly a fear of how would we plug into the system they have in place, which seems like a very good system, and a system that serves them very well,” he stated. “But is it a system that we would ultimately get really frustrated with?”
He cited their upcoming animated movie “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” as a optimistic instance of their course of in motion. Despite the movie being primarily based on a large piece of preexisting IP, Rogen says that he and Goldberg have been in a position to develop the venture at their very own tempo.
“And what’s nice about [‘Mutant Mayhem’] is that we’re the producers of this. So we dictated the system, and we dictated the process in a lot of ways. We are creating the infrastructure and process for them, not plugging into someone else’s infrastructure and process. We’re control freaks!”
