‘Sausage Party’ Animated Series Cooked Up At Amazon
26.10.2022 - 19:49
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Sausage Party is heading to the small-screen.
Amazon has ordered a series spin-off of the 2016 animated feature with cast members including Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz, and Edward Norton returning to lend their voices to the anthropomorphic groceries.
The streamer is planning to launch Sausage Party: Foodtopia in 2024.
Will Forte, Sam Richardson, Natasha Rothwell, and Yassir Lester are also set to lend their voices to the animated series, which is currently in production.
The film was written by Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir and directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan with Jonah Hill contributing to the story.
It told the story of a sausage who lives in a supermarket and discovers the truth about what happens when groceries are purchased. He goes on a journey with his friends to escape their fate while also facing a psychotic and malicious douche who wants to kill him.
Shaffir and Hunter will serve as showrunners of the series and will exec produce alongside Rogen, Goldberg, James Weaver, and Alex McAtee for Point Grey Pictures, Annapurna Television’s Megan Ellison and Patrick Chu, Andrew Millstein and Conrad Vernon, who serves as supervising director.
It is a co-production between Annapurna Television, Sony Pictures Television, and Amazon Studios.
“Film used to be the superior art form to television, and we humbly reached the pinnacle of what can be achieved with film in our remarkable opus, Sausage Party. But now that film is completely dead and TV is the forever-king of entertainment, we’ve decided to continue the epic adventures of our culinary crew in the soon-to-be-legendary televised masterpiece Sausage Party: Foodtopia. It’s got all the heart, double the