Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg: Friends Till 'The End'
In This Is the End, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride and Jay Baruchel — all playing themselves — are at a party at Franco's L.A. home when an earthquake hits.
At least, they think it's an earthquake. Turns out it's the Rapture — the End of Days, as foretold in the Book of Revelation, has arrived.
The script for This is the End is chock-a-block with references to various end-of-the-world epics and disaster films, iconic and less than, and the provisions the guys have at hand for survival include 12 bottles of water, 56 beers, two vodkas, four whiskeys and six bottles of wine, plus some tequila, Nutella, cheese, steaks, and a Milky Way.
Rogen and his longtime collaborator Evan Goldberg wrote the script together. The two met as adolescents on the Vancouver bar mitzvah circuit and began writing Superbad when they were just 13. (It was released in 2006.)
Because of their Jewish backgrounds, the two thought it was a funny notion that if you're good you go to heaven, that if you're bad you go to hell, and that — for some Christians — being Jewish qualifies as "bad."
While the comedians used Revelation as a jumping-off point, they did take some liberties.
“ 'Lord of the Rings' got nothing on this.