Seth Rogen Partners with Sony for His Next Movie

Seth Rogen and Sony Pictures have teamed up for his next movie, according to Variety.

Simon Rich is writing the script, based on his own story, with cinematographer Brandon Trost in talks to direct. Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver are producing with Rich and Alexandria McAtee executive producing.

The film is based on Rich's New Yorker novella and stars Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling laborer who immigrates to America in 1918 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is horrified to learn that his only surviving relative is his great grandson, Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a mild-mannered computer coder whom Herschel can't even begin to understand.

Production on the film will begin in Pittsburgh in October.

This is Rogen's first movie with Sony since co-directing "Sausage Party" in 2016.

Read the original article on Variety.

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