If they made a “Pineapple Express 2” or a “Superbad 2” for that matter would we see a Judd Apatow world crossover? Probably not, but actors like to talk wacky ideas when they’re bored on press junkets and James Franco did exactly that.
“Even before ‘Superbad’ came out, I think the studio was trying to get [Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg] to write a sequel, but they really didn’t want to write a sequel. I guess the kids would go to college or something like that [that was the studio’s idea],” Franco told MTV News. “And so, an answer to that was to do a ‘Superbad’/’Pineapple Express’ crossover, an unprecedented crossover movie with two directors, Greg Motolla and David Gordon Green, each directing half of the movie and somehow these characters get together, which doesn’t make sense at all, but could work.”
How would this silly meta-ness work if it were to ever happen? “I could sell them [the characters from ‘Superbad’] something, but I think we’d want some action, so you know, somehow the kids get in trouble somehow and we have to get them out of it,” Franco said. “And Seth plays characters in both movies, so somehow we’d have to kill one of them off.”
Yeah, it’s fun to talk and it’s a fun “idea”, but remember guys, sequels are gateway drugs to totally shit careers.
