David Gordon Green has signed on to direct the previously announced comedy The Pineapple Express, the latest in a series of upcoming projects from producer Judd Apatow and writer/star Seth Rogen. The pair first worked together on Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, and Apatow continued to cast Rogen in his first directorial film projects The 40-Year-Old Virgin and next year's Knocked Up. Somewhere along the way Rogen and writing partner Evan Goldberg started passing their own scripts to Apatow, who's been setting them up in front of the camera one by one (the other two films are Super Bad starring Michael Cera and Jonah Hill, and Drillbit Taylor starring Owen Wilson.)
The Pineapple Express is a druggie comedy that reunites Apatow and Rogen with their Geeks co-star James Franco. Filming is scheduled to begin in early 2007.
David Gordon Green has generated a lot of underground buzz over the last few years for his quiet, personal projects George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Undertow. He's no stranger to comedy though, as he frequently announces that his dream project is a beyond politically incorrect film called Me Chinese.
He's also been tagged for a long time as the writer-director of the film adaptation of A Confederacy of Dunces, which was already set up with Will Ferrell and a supposedly remarkable script before money troubles (along with the flooding of the novel's setting) sent the project into turnaround. Maybe the best news of the week is that this new Variety article claims the film is still happening.
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Wow... that guy really went uphill. I mean, the things he had done previously were pretty cool, but that's a large step up. Man, I wish I had gotten to know that guy when he came to NCSA and spoke that one time. Oh well.
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