They sure like Seth Rogen over at Dreamworks Animation, as they’ve already cast him in Shrek The Third, Monsters Vs. Aliens, Kung Fu Panda and its upcoming sequel, and now they’ve given him the lead role in Boo U, which is kind of Monsters Inc. meets Casper.
THR reports Rogen will play the lead role in the movie, which is about a ghost who must return to ghost school to learn how to be a better spook. It certainly sounds like they’re trying to borrow ideas from Monsters Inc., but then Dreamworks has rather a long history of making movies that are suspiciously similar to Pixar’s output (A Bugs Life & Antz, Finding Nemo & A Shark Tale).
As yet Boo U. doesn’t have a release date, but it should be in cinemas in either 2012 or 2013, with Tony Leondis (Igor) directing from a script by John Vitti (The Simpsons, King Of The Hill).