Seth and Evan had started their script when they were 13 years old, and already had something in its earliest form, which was incredibly funny and original. JUDD APATOW (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER): I heard that Seth was writing something when we did Freaks and Geeks, but he didn’t show it to me at that time. After the show was unceremoniously canceled in 2000, Apatow cast Rogen on Undeclared, which was also unceremoniously canceled after one season. When he was 16, Seth Rogen was cast in Judd Apatow’s cult series Freaks and Geeks. Many of the people mentioned throughout the film, such as Dan Remick and Mike Snider, are also actual people they knew. They really filled laundry detergent bottles with beer. They really did know a girl who got her period while dancing as teenagers, they wound up at an adult party where they watched people do cocaine. Much of Superbad was lifted directly from Goldberg and Rogen’s own lives. And we would just see that these are funny ideas. ROGEN: I was doing stand-up at the time, and I would try out the bits from the movie. As we watch these two best friends careen toward an uncertain future, Superbad also asks us all to reflect on one of the most important questions a teenager can ask: “Where can I find booze?” Mostly, though, Superbad endures because the film is as heartfelt as it is raunchy, thanks to the bond between the fictional Seth and Evan. None of them imagined the impact the movie would have-except for Rogen and Goldberg, who never doubted that Superbad would be big.įifteen years after the film’s 2007 release, you can still walk into Target and find McLovin T-shirts, and see dating app users declare that they’re “DTF”-a phrase that was coined by Jonah Hill’s friends that he used in the film. Immediately, the film was a hit that catapulted its cast-including Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Emma Stone, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader, and Martha MacIsaac-into stardom. More than a decade later, Superbad finally opened in theaters. So they started writing their own movie: a comedy about two kids trying to find alcohol and have sex with their high school crushes before going off to college called Superbad. Instead, they were drawn to films like Clerks, Swingers, Out of Sight, Pulp Fiction, and The Daytrippers. At 13, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg didn’t connect to the standard ’90s teen comedies that were coming out in theaters.
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