Seth Rogen has recalled the pitch for Ridley Scott‘s rumoured Monopoly movie.
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On the red carpet ahead of Variety and Apple TV+‘s Q&A screening of new series The Studio, the cast discussed the most memorable pitches and notes they’ve received while working in Hollywood.
“It was a meeting with Ridley Scott,” Rogen said. “He was going to direct the Monopoly movie, and me and Evan [Goldberg] went into his office and he said, ‘Imagine a helicopter shot of Central Park. You’re looking down on it from above. You pull up, you see all the buildings surrounding Central Park. What does it look like?’ And then he said, ‘A Monopoly board!’ And we’re like, ‘Fuck, that’s good.’”
While Rogen was particularly keen on the Monopoly idea, there have been plenty of other pitches that didn’t land so well with the actor.
“I think there was a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie in development for a while,” Rogen added. “Kool-Aid is not far off from what is actually floating around the halls of this place by any stretch of the imagination. I think we’ve been pitched every brand. I feel like there was a Doritos movie at some point.”
Bryan Cranston, who has a guest role in The Studio, said the strangest note he ever received came while working a modelling gig in his early 20s.
“I showed up, and the guy wanted me to wear a specific suit,” Cranston explained. “So I put on the suit, and it was way too big on me. It needed to be tailored. But the photographer came in, looked at the suit, and he goes, ‘You have a terrible body for clothes.’”
As for Chase Sui, who plays Rogen’s on-screen coworker Quinn Hacket, her worst note surprisingly came for a role in which she played a dead body. However, according to one director, Sui could have been a more convincing corpse.
“I had to play a dead body one time, and I got the note, ‘Be deader, if possible,’” Sui said. “Honestly kind of a good note, but a tough one.”
Series actor Dewayne Perkins, meanwhile, said he once told to “change the colour of a car,” which wasn’t even in his control.
“They were like, ‘I just don’t like that colour,’ and I was like, ‘That’s not a note. That’s simply a preference. And sure?’” Perkins said. “It’s notes like that where I’m like, ‘Oh, ok. You just wanted to say something.’”
The Studio, which has received rave reviews following its release on March 26, follows a newly appointed head of a film production company who attempts to save the floundering studio in a rapidly changing industry.
In a gushing five-star review of the Apple TV+ series, NME wrote: “This tongue-in-cheek takedown of the showbiz world is the funniest thing to come out of 2025 so far. If it doesn’t win an Emmy, there’s no justice left in Hollywood. Either that, or it’s a sign that the show has cut a bit too close to the bone – which feels like what The Studio is trying to do anyway.”