Biography

In a 2014 interview with Grantland, Friedberg and former creative partner Aaron Seltzer shared that after performing rewrites on 1996's Maximum Risk, they sold an animated film to Disney that "turned into Cars", followed by an adaptation of 1999's Little Green Men. According to press notes for their film Scary Movie, Little Green Man was developed in 1999, alongside another project called Motor Mouths. On Seltzer's official website, he lists Pixar Animation Studios, the studio that produced Cars, as one of his clients.

He and directing partner Aaron Seltzer have written and directed seven movies in the spoof/parody genre: Date Movie (2006), Epic Movie (2007), Meet the Spartans (2008), Disaster Movie (2008), Vampires Suck (2010), The Starving Games (2013), and Superfast! (2015). Six of these movies are currently in the IMDB "Bottom 100". Disaster Movie has spent years at #1 and 3 others are in the Bottom 25. They are infamously regarded by critics as being the killers of the spoof/parody genre.