EXCLUSIVE: In what is shaping up to be a cast of comedic hall-of-famers, sources tell Deadline that Seth Rogen will join Bill Murray in Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, Being Mortal. Ansari is also on board to star from a script he wrote. He also produces with Youree Henley. Taylor Friedman and Cameron Chidsey oversee Searchlight Pictures.
The film is based on the non-fiction book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande. Principal photography will begin in April, and Searchlight Pictures is slated to bring the film to theaters in 2023. While Ansari and Rogen have collaborated on a number of things over the years, this is sure to be the first feature film starring Rogen and Murray to offer fans plenty of excitement.
As for Rogen, he has a busy 2022 ahead of him, which began with Hulu’s hit series Pam & Tommy, in which he played the man responsible for stealing Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s sex tape. The series ended earlier this month to gain ratings for the streamer. Additionally, Rogen will play the man based on Steven Spielberg’s favorite uncle in Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical The Fablemans, bowing this Thanksgiving.
Rogen is represented by UTA.