Jay and Seth are none other than those two hooligans Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel. Seth is famous for “Knocked Up”, “Superbad” and a metric whack ton of other great films. Jay was also in “Knocked Up” and is soon to be seen sans body in the animated “How To Train Your Dragon”.

A few years ago, the two buds got together to make a teaser film as a pitch for “Jay And Seth Versus The Apocalypse”. In the teaser, two roommates play out the end times, stuck together in their apartment while the world outside faces The Zombie Threat, or the Big Flu or who the hell knows what nut contracting disaster. Two guys short on munchies and jammed together in a filthy apartment is Armageddon of a different sort.

Jay Baruchel was ambushed by the Io9 guys and forced to give up an update on The Apocalypse and where it sits on Seth and Jay’s to do list.

A tasty bit:

Jay And Seth Versus The Apocalypse, what’s going on with the film now?

Baruchel: Seth and I have a lot of things going on, so we just got to figure out a time in the year where it makes sense for us to carve our at least six months to do it. Seth just finished the Green Hornet, he producing I’m With Cancer, right now. We have a hockey movie we’re trying to do [The Goon]. So, it’s a toss-up [as to] which one goes first, and I’ve already said too much in other interviews, which have made myself and Seth look like an ass. But ideally, we start putting it all together. We’ve been working on it and writing it for the past two years. There’s a studio that wants to make it, so everybody wants to do it, it’s just a matter of timing. I’d say that we at least start making the thing in some capacity by the end of this year.

Would the majority of the film shoot feature your apartment after the apocalypse?

Baruchel: That’s a lot of it, that was the idea. We kind of have more grandiose ideas for what the feature would be. The one thing that I can say — that was my pitch, my idea, that I think we’ll end up doing, because it would be foolish not to — I want a recurring joke, because it takes place in Los Angeles, and there’s a lot of famous people in Los Angeles, I want a bunch of cameos, but I just want them to be corpses. I want them to be like “oh god there’s Will Smith’s dead body in the corner!” And it would actually be him. So that’s my recurring joke for the movie: I want there to be a lot of dead famous people in it.

I’m really not convinced seeing Morgan Freeman or Denzel or whoever lying dead in a shopping cart would be that funny but I’m just a Sci-Fi blogger. Thanks Io9 for the word.