Evan Goldberg

And some of these big production companies now, we just saw it with Hello Sunshine.

You know, you guys represent Point Grey, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's company.

Like, these are the kinds of companies that if this were the '70s and '80s, they would be able to own their shows, and in the modern environment, they are not.

They're very well-paid, and they have a lot of leverage going into negotiations, but they are not controlling their destinies like these other companies did back when.

I just thought it was a fun sort of comic book based story.

It was written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

Goldberg, yes.

Yeah, where Homer becomes the everyman, the superhero in the movie.

You know, another example, you know, that's a very good example with Vince Vaughn.

Another one that I think of that I, I'm, is in the book is, you know, Seth Rogen was a guy who believed really strongly that, like, there was an audience for a, a, an R-rated teen comedy, and he had written this movie, uh, initially with his writing partner, Evan Goldberg, like, when they were still teenagers.

They were younger than the characters in the script they were writing when they started it.

And, um, you know, he was lucky enough to be on, uh, Judd Apatow's TV shows in the late '90s into the early 2000s, Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, but after that, he...

Because...

The new DuckTales series that's being run by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

What is he known for? Oh, he's the one who...

He's behind Superbad, Pineapple Express, all of Seth Rogen's nonsense.

Before 2022.

So I'm going to say it was like 2021 when this first came out.

That Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were working on a DuckTales.

Now this is, I mean not DuckTales, Darkwing Duck.

Yeah

... it's gonna be like? Hopefully, I'm not Seth and Evan 'cause they're losers.

I don't know.

It's-- This is so personal to us almost.

I believe that's true for Seth.

Probably should have checked that before coming on here.

But if it wasn't the first of his that he was involved with writing-wise released, it was definitely the first one that he had ever started writing because him and Evan Goldberg famously wrote this over the course of seven years, dating back to when they were high school students in our, our native Vancouver.

Ooh.

Rad movie.

Directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

Yeah.

With celebrities playing heightened versions of themselves as the apocalypse comes to Los Angeles.

I mean, there were superhero movies before this, obviously, but the whole industry, the constant churn, the universification of Hollywood was really on the rise.

And so Sony came to Rogan and Evan Goldberg, his partner, and were like, do you want to make a superhero movie at a time when that's like the hottest thing in Hollywood? And they gave him a huge budget.

And who wouldn't say yes to that? Of course.

Absolutely.

I still love this movie.

I think it's held up.

It's famously written by Seth Rogen and his writing partner, Evan Goldberg, while they were in high school.

It's beautiful.

Uh, that person worked on Lost and Crowned.

Uh, who both serve as executive producers, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Alex McTeale, or MacAtee, uh, and Gabby Grantham are producing.

Uh, for Point Grey Pictures, Tad Stones is the creator of the original Darkwing Duck series and consulted on the development of his new adventures.

Speaking of his new adventures, this is the synopsis for it, or the, the, the overall description of what it's supposed to be.

What film or project took you the longest from beginning to end?

The longest, I mean, one of the ones that took the longest was, uh, Superbad just in the sense that Seth and Evan Goldberg r- you know, they started writing it when they were in high school or junior high school even.

And they were doing revisions, and we were all doing table reads, and we just couldn't get anyone to make it for a long time because it was unknowns.

It was kids talking filthy.