It is appropriate that creative partners chose Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for their Apple TV+ series “The Studio” – a destructive satire of the modern film industry – to premiere in the south of Southwest, a festival with once admiring film culture and deeply irreparable about Hollywood.
“I think many people wonder why so many bad films were made in Hollywood,” Rogen said in the Q&A after the premiere with two episodes. ‘But what people have to wonder is how each Good films are made in Hollywood. So that’s what we try to show here. “
Rogen plays Matt Remick, who is suddenly promoted in the work of the fictional continental studios (think of Sony Pictures mixed with Warner Bros. and a dash of Paramount). While veteran actors and colleague SXSW participants Catherine O The first episode alone contains Paul Dano, Peter Berg, Nicholas Stoller, Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron and Steve Buscemi, of whom most of whom have been packed in Matt’s hectic search to lock up a director for his first major project: a feature movement of Kool-AID.
At one point Rogen said that he and Goldberg – who direct the show, and wrote the first episode with colleague -executing producers Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez – told Scorsese that he should complain that he should have sold a project “Apple” Apple. ”
“And he says,” You say too much “fuck”, “” Rogen remembers. “And we thought:”We Say too much “fuck”?! “”
Rogen said that he and Goldberg tried to fill their film with so many top names they could because “we wanted to paint an accurate picture of a Hollywood film studio, and so we wanted to use people that you think a studio would be enthusiastic.”
He then mentioned the 2015 film version of the HBO series ‘Entourage’, which was meant in the same way in the heart of a Hollywood environment. “They have a big party and, like, Bob Saget is the most famous man there,” said Rogen. “I love the man, but it was always like, I don’t know if that is what it would be like.”
One of the most striking aspects of the show is cinematography. Each scene in the series unfolds in a single shot episode 2 – “The Oner” is even about director Sarah Polley who tries to shoot a crucial scene in one take.
“It was a great way to soften Studio notes because we couldn’t change anything if we had shot it,” said Rogen. “We wanted it to feel really compelling and we wanted it to be really stressful and panic inducing, which is our experience in industry.”
‘If we panic because there is no cutting, you will Panic when you look at it, “Goldberg joked.
“The Studio” Prime Ministers on Apple TV+ on March 26.