Seth Rogen is 'With Cancer'
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I predict that the news you are about to read will result in many people shocked, shocked! that someone would make a comedy about cancer. Even The Hollywood Reporter sounds a little uncertain about the news. But once you read the film's plot, I think you're going to see exactly what kind of movie this is.Mandate Pictures has bought I'm With Cancer, an autobiographical comedy by Will Reiser. Seth Rogen, the busiest man in Hollywood, is set to costar and produce the film alongside his writing-producing partner Evan Goldberg and The Daily Show's Ben Karlin.
Reiser's script is based on his own battle with cancer, and is centered around an up-and-coming 25-year-old who discovers he has the disease. I think you know where this is going. This isn't going to be some spoof of serious illness, or run with the idea that coming down with cancer is funny. Cancer is going to be about a young man trying to deal with something that could kill him, finding the humor in hospital situations, and using it to stay sane. Laughter is the best medicine, and all that. Given that Reiser obviously conquered his disease to co-produce this movie, I bet it will even have a happy ending. You know what I'm also willing to bet on? Medicinal marijuana jokes. If there isn't at least one, I will eat this post.
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10-10-2008 @ 1:14PM
Phil said...
Given the idiocy of the Tropic Thunder (retard) and Blindness (er, Blind) protests this year, I'm expecting a few knee-kerk reactions from Cancer support groups around the time of this film's release.
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10-10-2008 @ 2:58PM
john said...
I'm not sure about that. Speaking from experience, cancer groups emphasize finding the humor in the situation.
I guess it'll all depend on how the film treats the subject but one would hope an actual survivor wouldn't be tasteless about it.
10-10-2008 @ 1:59PM
Riley Freeman said...
elisabeth im going to hold u to that. if there isnt one ur going to have to make a youtube video. eating a paper version of this post. with all the html adds around the page lol.
and yes i wouldnt be surprised to see another group offended by this
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10-13-2008 @ 9:49AM
cruella said...
yes, i agree john... considering that reiser has cancer you would expect it to be tasteful... its an interesting idea and sth different from what we've seen so far... i think seth rogen will do a good job, as he does in most of his films... he's my newest friend on facebook's lovecinema application: http://apps.facebook.com/lovecinema/celebrity/profile/Seth-Rogen--1982#
very cool
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10-10-2008 @ 9:16PM
holly said...
i can't wait to see it. i know my husband will gladly go see it. he loves seth's work as it is and after all his brain cancer hospital situations and the like, we'd love to see it over dramatized and made fun of because it wasn't all fun and games when we went through it. i'm sure cancer survivors and their families will appreciate the laugh.
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10-12-2008 @ 4:36PM
Mickey said...
It seems to me that this has already been done. There was a movie called The Medecine Show I think in 2001 starring Jonathan Silverman which is based on this same plot. I was pretty impressed with its accuracy since I live with someone with colorectal cancer. But,this is not a new idea.
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