Pineapple Express
Pineapple Express is a 2008 American buddy stoner action comedy film directed by David Gordon Green, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and starring Rogen and James Franco. The plot centers on a process server and his marijuana dealer as they are forced to flee from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after witnessing them commit a murder. Producer Judd Apatow, who previously worked with Rogen and Goldberg on Knocked Up and Superbad, assisted in developing the story.
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| Running time | 112 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $26 million
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| Box office | $102.4 million
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Saul: No, you're not. But it's okay.
- When James Franco smashes the bong over Danny McBride's head, it was supposed to be a fake, break-away bong so McBride could take part in the stunt. However, it was filled with some water and when Franco actually smashed it, McBride was mildly hurt.
- Rosie Perez convinced the director, David Gordon Green to cut most of her dialogue out, telling him it would make her character's crooked side more effective.
- As he is handing Dale some guns, Red (Danny McBride says, "Ted Jones messed with the wrong melon farmers." This is a reference to the common network television practice of dubbing over "swear" words with less "objectionable" words or terms that have a similar sound and length - even if the replacement words don't really make sense in the context of the movie. "Melon Farmers" was used most famously as the dub for "Mother F***ers" in the network television version of the Die Hard series of movies (in which lead character John McClane's famous catchphrase, "Yippie-kai-yay, Mother F***ers!," became "Yippie-kai-yay, Melon Farmers!").
- Producer/writer Judd Apatow says that the inspiration for this film came from watching Brad Pitt's drugged-out character Floyd in True Romance (1993). Kevin Corrigan appears in both films.
- Judd Apatow told the newspaper "USA Today" that James Franco read Homer's ancient epic "The Iliad" during breaks on the set.
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