Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Studio’ Cameo: How Seth Rogen Directed His Hero and Why He Hired a Secret Camera Crew
variety.comEthan Shanfeld In the first few minutes of his Apple TV+ comedy “The Studio,” Seth Rogen’s character Matt Remick is promoted to the head of a major movie studio.
His first order of business in the new role is to fast-track a “Kool-Aid” movie — the studio’s next billion-dollar bet — and Matt, a starry-eyed cinephile, thinks he can get an auteur director to helm it.
He has a meeting with Martin Scorsese (played by none other than Martin Scorsese), who coincidentally pitches an original movie about Jonestown, the mass murder-suicide orchestrated by cult leader Jim Jones in which 900 people died by drinking laced… Kool-Aid.
So, Matt attempts to reverse-engineer his auteur “Kool-Aid” movie by making Scorsese think it was his idea in the in the first place.
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