NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks will play the title roles in writer-director Kevin Smith's raunchy new comedy "Zack and Miri Make a Porno."
Rogen ("Knocked Up") and Banks ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin") play childhood friends who ask their buddies to make a porno to get the pair out of debt. Soon everyone begins having sex with everyone, leading the previously platonic Zack and Miri to re-evaluate their relationship. Longtime Smith ensemble player Jason Mewes plays a supporting role.
The project is set up at the Weinstein Co. whose founders, former Miramax Films chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein, worked with Smith on such films as "Clerks" and "Chasing Amy."
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