Seth Rogen Says ‘Fear of the Process’ Has Turned Him Off From Marvel and DC Films: ‘Is It a System We’d Get Really Frustrated With?’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Seth Rogen is bringing the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchise back to life in the upcoming animated movie “Mutant Mayhem,” which he has a story credit on and produced through his Point Grey Pictures company.
During an interview with Polygon ahead of the film’s release, Rogen was ask what has kept him “turned off” from joining other movie franchises like the Marvel and DC superhero films. “Honestly, probably fear,” Rogen said. “We really have a pretty specific way we work; me and Evan [Goldberg] have been writers for 20 years at this point.
It’s a fear of the process, honestly. And I say that knowing nothing about the process. There are a lot of Marvel things I love.” “It’s mostly a fear of how would we plug into the system they have in place, which seems like a very good system, and a system that serves them very well,” Rogen continued. “But is it a system that we would ultimately get really frustrated with?
And what’s nice about [‘Mutant Mayhem’] is that we’re the producers of this. So we dictated the system, and we dictated the process in a lot of ways.
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