“Sausage Party” became the most successful animated film with adult release when it was released. All the more surprising that the crude comedy has not yet received a sequel. However, this will now be made up for in 2024 with an Amazon series.
In 2016, the animated comedy “Sausage Party”, created by the tried and tested comedy duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, broke all boundaries of good taste (we just say food orgy!) and hit a nerve. With its crude and accurate humour, the film not only gave us unbridled food porn in the truest sense of the word, but also set new standards in terms of the level of filthiness in animated films on the big screen.
This also paid off at the box office: With worldwide box office takings of around 141 million dollars, the 19 million dollar “Sausage Party” replaced the “South Park” movie after 17 (!) years at the top of the most successful films with a US adult release (in 2020, however, it was overtaken here by the anime hit “Demon Slayer – The Movie: Mugen Train”). Nevertheless, nothing has come of a sequel, which has been discussed several times, possibly due in part to a controversy about unpaid overtime by many animators.
But now it is certain: “Sausage Party” will be continued as a streaming series on Amazon Prime Video, which will present us with further insights into the secret (and particularly foul) behaviour of food in a supermarket. This is according to a consensus of US industry papers.
SEQUEL OR PREQUEL?
The “Sausage Party” series will be titled “Sausage Party: Foodtopia”, will initially comprise eight episodes and will launch on Amazon Prime Video in 2024 (and thus a full eight years after the feature film). However, it is still unknown whether this will actually be a direct sequel to the original or whether we will get a prequel in which a previous story is told.
In any case, it is certain that many characters from the film and their well-known original voice actors will return, including Seth Rogen (“Bad Neighbors”) as Frank the sausage, Michael Cera (“Superbad”) as Frank’s friend Barry, Kristen Wiig (“Ghostbusters”) as Frank’s hot dog bun crush Brenda, Edward Norton (“Fight Club”) as Jewish bagel Sammy Bagel Jr. and David Krumholtz (“Numb3rs”) as Muslim pita Lavash. New in as yet unknown roles are Will Forte (“Nebraska”), Sam Richardson (“Veep”), Natasha Rothwell (“Insecure”) and Yassir Lester (“Black Monday”).
BY ORIGINAL-TEAM
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg will once again co-produce “Sausage Party: Foodtopia” and also already have the best connections to Amazon’s streaming division through the hit series “The Boys”, which they co-produced. They are now already whetting the appetite for their new project with an official, delightfully inflated statement:
“Film used to be superior to television and we have reached the pinnacle of what is possible with film with our remarkable work. But now that film is completely dead and television is the eternal king of entertainment, we have decided to continue the epic adventures of our culinary crew in the soon-to-be-legendary series masterpiece ‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’. It has just as much heart, twice as many puns and three times as much food sex. In other words, it’s exactly what the world needs right now.”
Showrunners for the “Sausage Party” sequel will be Ariel Shaffir and Kyle Hunter, who have already penned the screenplay for the feature film with Rogen and Goldberg. Meanwhile, the production will be overseen by Conrad Vernon, one of the two “Sausage Party” directors. So it should be assured that “Foodtopia” will strike the same chord as the underlying big-screen adventure.
