The story of the shoddy 2016 animated film “Sausage Party” will continue in a new animated sequel series coming to Amazon Prime Video in 2024, called “Sausage Party: Footopia.” Original cast members Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz and Edward Norton will all return to reprise their roles in the “eight-course television event”, and are already in production.
Plot details are being kept secret, but the eight-episode series will also feature the voices of Will Forte, Sam Richardson, Natasha Rothwell and Yasir Lester, along with Ariel Shafir and Kyle Hunter (“Future Man”)—who co-wrote Did the 2016 film with Rogen and Evan Goldberg – serving as executive producer and showrunner.
“Sausage Party: Foodtopia” is from Annapurna Television, Sony Pictures Television, Amazon Studios and Point Gray Pictures.
“Film used to be fine art for television, and we humbly reach the pinnacle of what can be achieved with film in our remarkable work ‘Sausage Party’,” Rogen and Goldberg said in a statement. “But now that film is completely dead and the forever king of TV entertainment, we have decided to continue the epic adventures of our culinary crew in the soon-to-be famous television masterpiece Sausage Party: Foodtopia. , double the sentences, and triple the food over the food. In other words, this is what the world needs right now,” said Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
“The original ‘Sausage Party’ was an incredibly hilarious, outrageous, one-of-a-kind entry into the world of animation,” said Vernon Sanders, Amazon Studios’ head of global television. “We at Point Grey are thrilled to collaborate again with Seth, Evan and their team, as well as our partners at Annapurna Television and Sony Pictures Television, to offer a new look at this world that is one of our global will so clearly be brought to life for Prime Video customers.”
“The original film was another irreverent comedy from the brilliant comic minds of Seth and Evan. When Annapurna, Seth and Evan approached us to completely relaunch the project as a TV series, we were part of the collaboration. We were thrilled to be and equally excited to have Prime Video as our partner,” said Sony co-president Jason Klodfelter. “We look forward to the fanfare around ‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’, which Promises to be a hit.”
“Sausage Party” was released in 2016 by Sony Pictures as an extremely R-rated CG-animated comedy about living (and partying) in the grocery store, and earned $140 million at the worldwide box office. earned more than At the time, Rogen expressed interest in continuing the story in a “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”-style sequel, which would mix live-action and CG. That sequel never came to fruition, and it’s unclear whether a live-action/CG-hybrid idea is still on the table for this TV series.
Rogen, Goldberg, James Weaver and Alex McAtee will executive produce via Point Gray Pictures. Conrad Vernon, who co-directed the feature film, returns as the series’ supervising director and will executive produce with Annapurna Television’s Megan Ellison and Patrick Chu and Andrew Milstein. Sausage Party: Foodtopia is a co-production of Annapurna Television, Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios. The original film was a co-production between Columbia Pictures and Great Beyond.
