While Seth Rogen is primarily known for being a stoner with a memorable laugh in Judd Apatow movies, these days he’s doing at least as much producing as he is acting, with five of his current and upcoming production projects being rooted in comic book origins. And so Rogen has opinions about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which he spoke about in a new interview with Total Film Magazine.
“I think that Kevin Feige is a brilliant guy, and I think a lot of the filmmakers he’s hired to make these movies are great filmmakers,” Rogen said. “But as someone who doesn’t have children… it is [all] kind of geared toward kids, you know? There are times where I will forget. I’ll watch one of these things, as an adult with no kids, and be like, ‘Oh, this is just not for me.’”
Rogen’s assertion about the intended demographic for Marvel movies is perhaps painting with too broad a brush. Marvel movies are aimed at the largest possible audience, and kids just happen to be a part of that; parents without kids are a sizable portion as well. Regardless, Rogen also realizes that the Marvel movies are helping his other projects succeed. Rogen is a producer on Amazon Prime Video’s live-action series The Boys and the Invincible animated series, both of which poke at and jump off of superhero tropes in their own ways.
