Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg‘s Sausage Party opened to fairly positive reviews and a pretty healthy box-office last year. Because the film had a relatively small budget (roughly $19 million, against a $160 million worldwide gross), there’s enough to justify a sequel, but despite initially offering a tease that there would be a follow-up, Rogen has been quoted in saying that another film probably won’t happen.
The actor, director, writer and producer spoke with The Daily Beast:
“I mean, we talk about it, but at the same time it took us a long time. The reception was good. My instinct, again, would just be if I were going to spend five years working on another animated movie, I’d probably want it to be something different. We inherently did think about where else that movie could go, but I think the thing most people liked was the originality of it, and that you felt like you were watching something you’d never seen before. By the nature of doing a sequel to it, it will lose that. When we’re making movies and TV shows, if there’s a dragon we’re chasing it’s that. We used to just want to make audiences laugh really hard, and now more than that, I like it when I feel like an audience is seeing something that they can’t believe they’re seeing; where they’re literally looking at the people beside them in the theater and are checking to see that everyone is seeing the same thing they are.”
Obviously if news of a Sausage Party sequel ever rears its head, we’ll let you know. More at the end of the link above.
