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Will Reiser and Seth Rogan on the set of 50/50 (2012). Will wrote 50/50. Will is the cousin of Paul Reiser and has one other writing credit. Previously he wrote a 2007 tv movie.
50/50 is based on Will's own experience. His friend Seth Rogan encouraged him to write a screenplay about his situation.
You’ll be fine. 50/50! If you were a casino game you’d have the best odds! - 50/50, Will Reiser (2011)
Adam: I want this to be over. I’m so fucking tired of being sick...if this surgery doesn’t work, that’s it -- [crying] I’ve never been to fucking Canada or told a girl I love her...it sounds stupid. Katherine: No. It doesn’t. Adam: I’m sorry I was such an asshole. Katherine: I was the asshole. I was so totally unprepared - for you. This job is really hard. If I fuck up, I could ruin someone’s whole life. Adam: I guess we’re both beginners at this. Katherine: [smiles] Yeah. Adam: What were you doing when I called? Were you on Facebook? Katherine: You know... umm... stalking my ex-boyfriend actually isn't the only thing I do in my free time. Adam: I wish you were my girlfriend. Katherine: Girlfriends can be nice. You just had a bad one. Adam: Yeah, but I bet you’d be a good one. - 50/50, Will Reiser (2011)
50/50
This dramedy from writer Will Reiser explores his own battle with cancer and the impact it had on his life. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Adam, Reiser’s film alter ego, and Seth Rogen schlumps along for the ride as Adam’s best friend who struggles to bolster his friend’s spirits and come to terms with the situation for himself. While the trailers have played the scenario for laughs, 50/50brings very…
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50/50 (2011) Dir: Jonathan Levine DOP: Terry Stacey “That's what everyone has been telling me since the beginning. "Oh, you're gonna be okay," and "Oh, everything's fine," and like, it's not... It makes it worse... that no one will just come out and say it. Like, "hey man, you're gonna die."
You know, six years ago, when I was diagnosed, and I had cancer, my closest friend at the time was Seth Rogen, and the way that we dealt with it was by finding the humor in the situation. And cancer aside, is we would always come up with just kind of ridiculous movie ideas. And while I was sick, we just kind of - we floated the idea, you know, back and forth with one another, just the idea of doing a cancer comedy. But it was really, it was really just a joke. We wanted to do like a parody of "The Bucket List." But where you do really absurd and ridiculous things, like, you know, skydiving with hookers and just things that were completely outlandish. But it was a joke, and that was really kind of - that was a very - it was sort of a coping mechanism at the time. And for me, I would think about this movie from time to time when really absurd things would happen to me in my life because at the time when I was sick was actually probably the most absurd period of my life. And once I got better, that was when I actually started thinking, oh, you know, and Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg started really urging me to write the movie. But when I was actually sick, it was really kind of this place I would go in my head to kind of retreat from all the chaos, and I would just kind of think of where I could - you know, you know, all the crazy things that were happening in my life, I would just think of, you know, a place where I could put all of that. But I never actually thought that this movie would be made.
Will Reiser on the origins of '50/50'
You can't change your situation, the only thing you can change is how you choose to deal with it.
Dr. McKay, 50/50
