Even after greater than 15 years, followers of Pineapple Specific haven’t stopped asking in the event that they’ll ever get to see Dale and Saul again on display screen. The 2008 stoner action-comedy, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, turned a cult favorite after making over $100 million on the field workplace on a $26 million funds. However regardless of the film’s success—and repeated fan requests—a sequel has by no means occurred.
When Seth just lately appeared on Watch What Occurs Stay, host Andy Cohen learn out a viewer query about whether or not a follow-up might be on the playing cards. “Possibly,” Seth mentioned. “We are able to most likely promote it to streaming or one thing,” he added.
After Andy identified that there’s “a giant demand” for it, Seth responded, “There might be. You by no means know. I don’t know. I’m not nice with sequels. It’s not the place my thoughts goes, however possibly in the future.”
Seth co-wrote the screenplay with Evan Goldberg, from a narrative developed with Judd Apatow, who additionally produced the movie. Directed by David Gordon Inexperienced, it additionally featured Gary Cole, Rosy Perez and Danny McBride. A sequel was briefly in improvement after the unique’s success however was in the end scrapped.
“We tried to make one,” Seth mentioned on The Howard Stern Present in 2020. “Because of the Sony hack, you may really discover the e-mail when Sony determined to kill the film and never make it. It was one thing we had been very open to a number of years in the past, however Sony was not that desirous about it,” he added.
Politics behind the scenes additionally appeared to play a task. “I feel we most likely needed an excessive amount of cash. Studios, they don’t like gifting away cash,” Seth admitted.
Followers have been teased earlier than. In 2013, Sony dropped a faux Pineapple Specific 2 trailer for April Idiot’s Day to advertise Seth’s This Is the Finish, which even included a tongue-in-cheek scene of Seth and James making their very own low-budget sequel through the apocalypse. However the true factor appears unlikely—particularly because the two leads aren’t on talking phrases anymore. In a 2024 interview with Selection, James had mentioned, “No. I haven’t talked to Seth. I really like Seth, we had 20 nice years collectively, however I assume it’s over. And never for lack of attempting. I’ve advised him how a lot he’s meant to me.”
Even producer Judd Apatow—who just lately revealed he as soon as had “a tremendous thought” for a follow-up—doesn’t see it occurring. And with Seth and Evan busy producing reveals like The Boys, James immersed in his personal inventive tasks, and Inexperienced and McBride tied up with Halloween and The Righteous Gems, it appears the closest followers will get to a sequel continues to be the April Idiot’s joke.