Seth Rogen Is Open to Making a Pineapple Express Sequel

Would Seth Rogen ever make a sequel to his hit stoner comedy Pineapple Express?

When Rogen, 43, appeared on the Tuesday, Aug. 12 episode of Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen posed that question to The Studio creator, while noting that Rogen once said a planned sequel was scrapped due to budgetary concerns.

“Maybe — we could probably sell it to streaming or something,” Rogen said, with a laugh. “There could be [a demand for a sequel,]” he added. “You never know. I don’t know. I’m not a big sequel — I’m not great with sequels. It’s not where my mind goes. But maybe one day.” 

Pineapple Express starred Rogen as a process server named Dale who embarks on an adventure with his marijuana dealer Saul (James Franco) after Dale accidentally witnesses a corrupt police officer participate in a murder. The movie also starred Danny McBride, Gary Cole, Craig Robinson, Rosie Perez, Ken Jeong, Amber Heard, Ed Begley Jr. and Jo Lo Truglio.

Rogen and Franco, 47, made a number of comedies together in the 2000s and 2010s. They even famously included a miniature parody-style sequel to Pineapple Express in their 2013 disaster comedy This Is The End.

Although Rogen entertained the idea of a Pineapple Express sequel on Watch What Happens Live, he stated during a 2021 interview with with the U.K.’s The Sunday Times that he no longer planned to work with Franco after five women accused Franco of sexually inappropriate behavior in a 2018 Los Angeles Times article. Two of those five women filed a sexual misconduct lawsuit against Franco in 2019, which was settled in 2021. Records PEOPLE obtained at that time showed that he agreed to pay $2.235 million in the settlement. 

Franco and Rogen last collaborated on the 2017 movieThe Disaster Artist, which Franco directed. When Franco appeared at the Rome Film Festival in October 2024 to promote a new movie Hey Joe, he shared that he and Rogen had not spoken recently. “I love Seth, we had 20 great years together, but I guess it’s over,” he said at the time. “And not for lack of trying. I’ve told him how much he’s meant to me.”

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When Esquire asked Rogen about Franco’s comments during an interview that ran in February, Rogen replied, “Honestly, I absorb so little media that it really wasn’t on my radar.” 

Back in 2020, Rogen said during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show that he considered making a sequel at one point, but Sony Pictures “killed the movie” due to budgetary concerns. “It was something we were very open to several years ago, but Sony was not that interested in it,” he said at the time.

“I think we probably wanted too much money. When we made the first one, nobody got paid anything, and that’s why it was a $25 million movie,” Rogen added to Stern in that interview. “And that’s why it became highly, highly, highly profitable, because it was made really cheaply, especially for an action movie. Studios — they don’t like giving away money. Weird thing.”