Seth Rogan Is Accidentally Preserved in Pickle Brine for 100 Years in First Trailer for AN AMERICAN PICKLE
HBO Max has released the first strange and fun trailer for Seth Rogan’s upcoming film An American Pickle. The movie is an adaptation of the 2013 New Yorker series Sell Out by Simon Rich, who also wrote the script.
The story follows an immigrant worker at a pickle factory who is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern-day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great-grandson, a computer coder whom he can’t connect with.
Rogan plays both of the main characters in the film. This is such a crazy and absurd story, but that’s what I love about it! At the same time, it also tells a sweet and charming story. When talking about the film with USA Today, Rogen said “There was a real sense from people I know that thought maybe it was a joke and not an actual movie that we were spending huge amounts of time and energy working on. It was in fact real. So I’m excited to show it to people.”
The movie was directed by Brandon Trost, and this is the synopsis that was shared:
Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling laborer who immigrates to America in 1920 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present-day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn’t aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is troubled to learn that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson, Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a mild-mannered computer coder whom Herschel can’t even begin to understand.
An American Pickle arrives on HBO Max August 6.