This Is the End (2013)
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
- Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- During the filming of This Is the End, James Franco improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
This Is the End is a 2013 American apocalyptic comedy directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film features Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, and Danny McBride playing fictionalized, often unflattering versions of themselves who become trapped in James Franco's house during the Biblical apocalypse โ complete with sinkholes swallowing Hollywood celebrities, giant demons, and the actual Rapture selectively taking virtuous people to heaven. The brilliance of the premise was its commitment to the fictionalized self-portrait concept โ each actor's persona was exaggerated for comedic effect, with Franco playing an insufferably pretentious art collector, Hill a passive-aggressively nice backstabber, and McBride an unrepentant boor.
The film was genuinely shocking in its willingness to kill famous people in graphic, hilarious ways during the party sequence. This Is the End earned $126 million worldwide on a $32 million budget.
