Warning: minor SPOILERS for The Studio are forward!
In the event you’re like me and have been streaming The Studio with an Apple TV+ subscription during the last a number of weeks, that the primary episode of Seth Rogen’s critically-acclaimed new collection revolves across the title firm placing collectively a film about an promoting icon. Rogen’s Matt Remick agrees to greenlight a film in regards to the Kool-Help Man in trade for changing into the brand new head of Continental Studios, and that results in… effectively, extra on that later. The purpose being, the actual life information a few Hershey’s Chocolate film being made provides off related vibes, and Apple hilariously channeled The Studio reacting to it.
First off, earlier than anybody will get riled up, this film, aptly titled Hershey, will chronicle the story of how the chocolate firm was based fairly than ship a Jungle Cruise-style journey the place characters journey down a chocolate river or something alongside these strains. However, the Apple TV X account determined to interrupt out Kathryn Hahn’s Maya Mason to touch upon the information.
As Continental Studios’ head of selling, I’ve little doubt she might promote Hershey no downside. Hell, she got here up with a pitch video for the Kool-Help Man film on The Studio with out there even being a plot, and Bryan Cranston’s Griffin Mill ate it up. Additionally, a film in regards to the Hershey firm being began is much more palatable than when Matt Remick tried to pivot the Kool-Help film right into a Martin Scorsese-directed function in regards to the Jonestown deaths.
Concerning what we are able to count on from Hershey, Selection experiences that the film will star Finn Wittrock and Alexandra Daddario as Milton and Kitty Hershey, with Milton having based The Hershey Firm in 1894. Collectively, the couple based the Hershey Industrial College in 1909, which gave free schooling and housing to orphans and underprivileged kids. Then in 1925, 20 years earlier than he died, Milton transferred the vast majority of his fortune into the Milton Hershey College Belief. He and Kitty have been additionally in a position to construct theaters, recreations and public transportation for his or her employees within the city that was constructed round their chocolate manufacturing unit.
Imply Women and Freaky Friday’s Mark Waters will direct Hershey, and filming is anticipated to start in Might. The film doesn’t have a distributor but, however the plan is to launch it in 2026. Right here’s what Waters needed to say in an official assertion:
Towards all odds, Milton achieved nice success, however not like a whole lot of different rich males of his time, he shared his success with the working individuals and neighborhood round him. The core of ‘Hershey,’ the film, would be the particular love story between Milton and Catherine Hershey, who impressed his biggest legacy — the creation of Milton Hershey College. I’m excited to have Finn Wittrock and Alexandra Daddario to painting these two visionaries, who believed in leaving the world a greater place than they discovered it — the form of fantastic, true story that audiences are hungry for proper now.
We’ll have to attend and see how Hershey does with audiences come subsequent 12 months, however for now, I’m simply glad that whoever’s operating the Apple TV X account broke out that shot from The Studio to chime in on the announcement. Catch new episodes of the Seth Rogen-led collection Wednesdays on the 2025 TV schedule.