Seth Rogen Starring in the "Original" Buddy-Cop Comedy

Merely a hunch on my part, but I sense the headlining days of Seth Rogen slowly coming to an end, and we'll see him take the leap behind the camera full time a la Knocked Up co-star Harold Ramis. For as good as his comedies have been overall (Save for the occasional Green Hornet before a 50/50), his presence unfortunately is viewed increasingly as a hindrance as the box-office receipts for his fare get lower. So when we do hear of a starring vehicle for the comedy star, enjoy it while you can.

THR has the details on the latest, an untitled action/comedy telling the first interracial cop pairing, in essence the "father" to the buddy-cop sub-genre with Roth and Kevin Hart attached to star:

"The action comedy aims to be the 'original' buddy cop comedy by having Rogen and Hart be the first white and black cop duo in a story set post-World War II, in the late 1940s. The pair go undercover in the jazz scene to bust up a ring involving marijuana (no surprise there, since Rogen is involved.)"

The pitch was bought by Paramount with Rodney Rothman (a writer for The Late Show with David Letterman and Undeclared, incidentally co-starring Rogen) writing.