Seth Rogen Joins Bill Murray in Aziz Ansari's Directorial Debut of BEING MORTAL Based on True Story

Seth Rogen (Freaks and Geeks, Pineapple Express) has signed on to star in the film Being Mortal, alongside Bill Murray (Ghostbusters, What About Bob?) and Aziz Ansari (Parks and Recreation). Ansari is making his directorial debut on the film, which he also wrote the adapted script for. The story is based on Atul Gawande’s nonfiction book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.

The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains Gawande's reflections and personal stories. He suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival. Being Mortal is a meditation on how people can better live with age-related frailty, serious illness, and approaching death. Gawande calls for a change in the way that medical professionals treat patients approaching their ends. He recommends that instead of focusing on survival, practitioners should work to improve quality of life and enable well-being. Gawande shares personal stories of his patients' and his own relatives' experiences, the realities of old age which involve broken hips and dementia, overwhelmed families and expensive geriatric care, and loneliness and loss of independence.

This sounds like something really different for these comedic actors, but also very interesting. Principal photography will start in April, with Searchlight Pictures set to release the film theatrically in 2023.