Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Lined Up For Xmas Flick

If Seth Rogen has learned anything, it’s these two things: Stick with what works and stick with your friends.

Reference how one Judd Apatow/Seth Rogen collaboration after another has gobbled up the giggles (from The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up to Superbad and Pineapple Express). Notice how Rogen’s been buddies with the same people in most of his movies since his national debut in television’s Freaks and Geeks in 1999.

And now, in keeping, Rogen will be teaming up with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, his co-star in the 2011 cancer comedy 50/50, for an as-yet-untitled movie due out on December 11, 2015, according to Cinema Blend. And who will be the director of said untitled film? None other than Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies), who was also the director of 50/50.

No details about the movie have been released yet, other than a scant plot having Rogen, Gordon-Levitt and another star cavorting on their traditional Christmas Eve bacchanalia. So far, the movie will have just Alvin and the Chipmunks 4 to compete with that first week, but then it will be joined by a new Star Wars movie and Inferno, yet another Dan Brown book adaptation, and, just before Santa comes, Kung Fu Panda 3.

As is the case with most of his buddies from way back (see: James Franco, Jason Segel, Jonah Hill et al), Rogen’s slacker chic is much in demand these days. According to an E Online story today, Kanye West laughed so hard when he saw Rogen and buddy James Franco’s parody of “Bound 2” that he wanted the duo to reprise their “Bound 3” for Kim Kardashian on the eve of their wedding.

In a Guardian piece called “Seth Rogen: the slacker’s guide to getting ahead,” Apatow sums up his appeal:

“If you see Seth on a talk show, he seems very comfortable. I never see him pacing frantically, worrying whether or not he’s going to have a great spot on Letterman. He seems amused by the whole thing. A lot of us, if we don’t do well, we think we’re going to die. It’s more like he gets a kick out of it. People definitely want to be around that. He’s got his shit together.”

About making great movies, Rogen says: “The more we make movies, the more we realize that the fun of making movies is taking the chance that we could be doing something disastrously bad.”

Witness here something simultaneously fun and disastrously bad:

[Image courtesy of IMDB]