If you’re planning on seeing Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s This Is the End this weekend, you may not know that it was based on the 2007 short film, “Jay and Seth Versus the Apocalypse.” Embedded above is the trailer for the unreleased short film that Rogen starred in with Jay Baruchel, which quickly became a viral hit. Rogen and Goldberg wrote the script with Jason Stone, who directed. They used the short to shop around This Is the End to studios in order to get the movie made but had to change the title because, according to Goldberg, “Steven Spielberg and Fox made Robopocalypse and because of that, we can’t use ‘apocalypse.’”
