Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's New Show FUTURE MAN Coming to Hulu

Netflix has House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, and a host of other original shows that draw people in. Amazon Instant Video has been picking up steam in recent years, with the award-winning Transparent giving it a boost in popularity recently. Even Yahoo Screen had Community for a season. But Hulu hasn't been able to make much of a cultural dent with its original programming so far. It has The Mindy Project coming its way, and Billy Eichner's Difficult People is generating a little bit of buzz, but the streaming platform needs a breakout hit of its own to really compete with its contemporaries.

Maybe this new show will be just what they need. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Hulu has ordered a pilot for Future Man, a series from executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and writers Ariel Schaffir and Kyle Hunter. Here's the description:

Future Man chronicles a janitor by day, world-ranked gamer by night who is tasked with preventing the extinction of humans after mysterious visitors from the future declare him to be the key to defeating the imminent super-race invasion.

Sounds a little like Pixels to me. With that, Future Man, and the upcoming Ready Player One, it seems like Hollywood is really going all in on the whole "gamers are the new heroes" thing.

I wonder if Rogen and Goldberg are stretching themselves too thin with all of these projects they're working on. In addition to Future Man (the pilot of which they'll direct), they have an R-rated animated film called Sausage Party on the horizon, as well as AMC's Preacher and FX's Bigfoot, plus whatever live action stuff they may be developing. That's a lot of balls to juggle. Hopefully they can keep the quality consistent across the board.

Coincidentally, the duo will now be working on the same network as their frequent collaborator James Franco: Franco is starring in 11/22/63 for Hulu, which is a new series from Stephen King and J.J. Abrams.

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