‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’ Trailer: Seth Rogen Aspires to Cook Up a Perfect Foodie World
Samantha Bergeson
The “Sausage Party” TV-series spinoff “Foodtopia” is kind of like Seth Rogen‘s warped, food-based version of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis.”
Based off the 2016 animated feature, the upcoming Prime Video series “Sausage Party: Foodtopia” follows returning characters Frank, Brenda, Barry, and Sammy as they try to build their own food society. It’s a…bit less sophisticated than Coppola’s.
The infamously raunchy food-centric “Sausage Party” whipped up a bit of a stir with its original theatrical release. Now, almost a decade later, the Prime Video series features returning original cast members Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz, and Edward Norton, along with newcomers Will Forte, Sam Richardson, Natasha Rothwell, and Yassir Lester.
The eight-episode first season hails from Annapurna Television, Sony Pictures Television, and Amazon MGM Studios. The original film was a co-production between Columbia Pictures and Great Beyond.
The series is executive produced by Ariel Shaffir and Kyle Hunter, who also serve as showrunners. Shaffir and Hunter co-wrote the 2016 animated feature film with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Rogen, Goldberg, James Weaver, and Alex McAtee will executive produce the series via Point Grey Pictures, with Madeline Blair overseeing for Point Grey Pictures.
Conrad Vernon, who co-directed the feature film, returns as director for the series and will also executive produce alongside Annapurna Television’s Megan Ellison, Patrick Chu, and Andrew Millstein.
The series was announced in 2022, with Rogen and Goldberg issuing a statement quipping that “film is completely dead” and therefore any follow-up to “Sausage Party” was best suited to TV.
“Film used to be the superior art form to television, and we humbly reached the pinnacle of what can be achieved with film in our remarkable opus, ‘Sausage Party,’” Rogen and Goldberg said at the time. “But now that film is completely dead and TV is the forever-king of entertainment, we’ve decided to continue the epic adventures of our culinary crew in the soon-to-be-legendary televised masterpiece ‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia.’ It’s got all the heart, double the puns, and triple the food-on-food sex. In other words, it’s exactly what the world needs right now.”
Rogen proudly told Empire magazine that “Foodtopia” actress Wiig thought the series was more outrageous than the original film.
“We had Kristen Wiig in picking up a few lines the other day, and I think we’ve all become desensitized to it, because we’ll just be like, ‘Roll the scene!’, and then she was like, ‘Oh my God?! This is insane!,’” Rogen recalled. “There’s one specific scene that had a special screening for the Amazon PR people: ‘You should all just start wrapping your heads around this now. You’ll probably have to talk about this a lot.'”
“Sausage Party: Foodtopia” will premiere July 11 on Prime Video. Check out the trailer below.
