Judd Apatow stable boys /”Superbad,” “Pineapple Express” writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have been tapped to write an episode of the Simpsons, or rather they reached out and asked if they could pen a script.
“We called The Simpsons and asked if we could write an episode. Evan actually met James L Brooks at a party and James said he really liked ‘Superbad,’ so we thought there’s our in. Maybe we could ask to write a Simpsons,” Rogen told Collider.
Presumably the episode wil mix friendship with ribald comedy and a heart of gold, but you won’t see it anytime soon, it’s not even written therefore, not even animated. Maybe you’ll see it next season (does anyone watch that show anymore outside of *big-named announcements like this? *”big-named” being relative of course).
“We went in and pitched them like 5 ideas and surprisingly they hadn’t done some of them,” Rogen said. “We all sort of settled on one [idea] during the meting and then we went out and wrote an outline and they gave us notes on it. Then we re-wrote the outline. “
Rogen also told Joblo (yeah, there’s a movie site that takes itself seriously with that name) a bit about “The Green Hornet” script he and Goldberg are also writing and said the ideas they are generating could add a high price ticket to the project, but than again, he cautioned, who knows…
“We don’t think about the money at all when we’re writing a script, the only way we can do it is to just write exactly what it is we would want to see. This seems like it would be more in the $70-100 million dollar world. But again, we just write these things thinking like what movie do we want to go see? What would we throw down our money for?”
As they are wont to do with their comedy, the duo want to dig a little deeper (relative of course) and explore the relationship between a hero and his sidekick. “What is a hero without a sidekick? What is a sidekick without a hero? It’s actually a dynamic that applies to many real life situations; a lot of working dynamics, a lot of bosses and their underlings and stuff like that.”
