Seth Rogen Reveals Ridley Scott’s Pitch for the ‘Monopoly’ Movie as ‘The Studio’ Cast Shares Crazy Hollywood Notes: A Photographer Said, ‘You Have a Terrible Body for Clothes’

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Jack Dunn On the carpet ahead of Variety and Apple TV+‘s “The Studio” screening and Q&A, the cast discussed the most memorable notes and pitches they’ve gotten while working in Hollywood.

Director and star Seth Rogen said he remembers the pitch for Ridley Scott’s rumored “Monopoly” movie “verbatim” since the meeting was helmed by the “Alien” director himself. “It was a meeting with Ridley Scott,” Rogen said. “He was going to direct the ‘Monopoly’ movie, and me and Evan [Goldberg] went into his office and he said, ‘Imagine a helicopter shot of Central Park.

You’re looking down on it from above. You pull up, you see all the buildings surrounding Central Park. What does it look like?’ And then he said, ‘A Monopoly board!’ And were like, ‘Fuck, that’s good.'” While the “Monopoly” movie landed for Rogen, there were other pitches that did not resonate nearly as well. “I think there was a ‘Hungry Hungry Hippos’ movie in development for a while,” Rogen added. “Kool-Aid is not far off from what is actually floating around the halls of this place by any stretch of the imagination.

I think we’ve been pitched every brand. I feel like there was a ‘Doritos’ movie at some point.” Bryan Cranston, who plays a guest role in “The Studio,” said the wildest note he ever got came while working a modeling gig in his early 20s. “I showed up, and the guy wanted me to wear a specific suit,” Cranston explained. “So I put on the suit, and it was way too big on me.