Seth Rogen has addressed Disney’s long dormant Figment movie for the first time in roughly four years. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly at the Toronto International Film Festival while promoting Babies, Rogen first corrected a widely held assumption about his own role: he was never attached to play the character.
What He Actually Said
“I wasn’t gonna star in it, we were producing it,” Rogen said, clearing up years of speculation that he would voice EPCOT’s purple dragon himself. Asked where the project stands now, he laughed and gave an answer that commits to nothing. “Let me get back to you on that. Let me kick the tires on that one.”
That is not a green light, but it is not a burial either. Pressed for detail on his version of the character, he declined to share anything at all.
Four Years Of Nothing
The Figment film first surfaced in 2022, with Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures producing for Disney. Then the updates stopped. No cast, no director, no release window, no public confirmation that development continued at any point in the years since. Rogen’s own comment is the first substantive acknowledgment from anyone attached that the project exists in any form.
Disney has had chances to clarify. At the company’s annual shareholder meeting in March 2026, chief executive Josh D’Amaro was asked directly whether a Figment movie would ever happen. He praised the character’s staying power with fans and left it there.
The Character Is Having A Very Good Year Anyway
Figment spent years as one of the most requested characters in Disney’s parks catalog with almost nothing to show for it, and that changed in August. At D23, Disney announced that Figment and Dreamfinder will be reunited in a reimagined Journey Into Imagination at EPCOT, after host Neil Patrick Harris appeared onstage dressed as Dreamfinder and pushed Disney Experiences chairman Thomas Mazloum to commit in front of the crowd. Mazloum did, on the spot.
That announcement arrived without a date or a full scope of work, but it put the character back at the center of the pavilion he was created for.
Where That Leaves It
Nothing about the film’s status has formally changed. There is no writer publicly attached today, no director, no date. What changed is that a producer on the project talked about it out loud and said he would look into it, which is more than the movie has gotten since 2022.
Figment first appeared at EPCOT in 1983 alongside Dreamfinder in the original Journey Into Imagination, and he has outlived nearly every version of the ride since. He has proven to be a fan favorite.
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