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People On The Internet Want A 'Superbad' Sequel

People On The Internet Want A 'Superbad' Sequel

Superbad is one of the funniest and most beloved films of the last 20 years - no wonder people really want a follow-up

Mike Wood

Mike Wood

Superbad is one of the most iconic movies of the last 20 years - and if the people of the Internet have their way, there might be another one coming.

People all over Twitter have been floating the idea for a while now, with the overwhelming view that the social media commentariat wants to see what Fogle, Seth and Evan are doing with their lives - now that Fogle is old enough to buy beer without masquerading as McLovin.

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A couple of people have floated ideas of what they think it would look like - a psychedelic road trip movie a la Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, perhaps - or as, one person suggested, a scene in which one of them is drinking detergent.

To be fair, it probably wouldn't be much weirder than anything that happened in the original movie.

Perhaps even they could do a really straight, non-comedic drama in which they address the consequences of growing up, having stable family lives and boring, unfulfilling jobs (where Seth probably still scribbles cocks onto his notes in interminable meetings).

Seth Rogen, unfortunately, has kyboshed any talk of a sequel on several occasions. "To us, it was such a personal story," he told Cinemablend a few years back.

"It was about us, and there was just no... So what? Now the next one is about how we're going to college? But we didn't go to college together. I didn't go to college. It seemed very inorganic, but that was the only reason, really."

And also, I don't know how I would write a movie about high school kids now, or around that age. Even the small, the girls, the sorority girls in [Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising], it was very hard to write their characters. We have to talk to them a lot about what they would do and say in the situations that we had presented."

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Michael Cera agreed with him in an interview with Bustle shortly afterwards. "I think it would just be sad at this point," said the actor, who played Evan in the original movie.

"It would be doing the same characters but ten years later. Everyone would be like, 'Oh man, I liked it when they were young and bushy-tailed.' Sometimes if you wait too long, it's not so sweet anymore. To me it's such a nicely wrapped up story. I think it's a stand-alone movie."

Of course, a film that has enjoyed such cult status (and made in the region of $160 million for the studio) will always have fans clamouring for round two, but it seems unlikely at this stage.

Featured Image Credit: Columbia Pictures

Topics: TV and Film, US Entertainment