Seth Rogen’s Hulu Series Stars Josh Hutcherson Living Out Every Gamer’s Fantasy

From Hunger Games leading man to antisocial janitor and video game geek, 23-year-old actor Josh Hutcherson has been tapped to star in Future Man, a dystopian Hulu comedy series created by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

Future Man, which was picked up by Hulu last August after originally being optioned as a feature film, tells the story of Josh Futturman (played by Hutcherson), who’s a janitor by day and world-ranked video gamer by night. In the series, Futturman still lives at home with his parents because of a sickly adolescence, though he is abnormally skilled at a video game called Cybergeddon. In a plot twist that sounds like every gamer’s ultimate fantasy, when Futturman beats Cybergeddom, characters from the game suddenly appear in real life to tell him that the whole thing was just a training manual and that he must travel back in time to save the world.

Hutcherson’s production company, Turkeyfoot, has also signed on to produce the series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rogen and Goldberg will direct the pilot, which still doesn’t have a release date.

Though both Rogen and Hutcherson are luminaries in the world of traditional film, each has also dipped their toes into the digital waters. Hutcherson starred in a Canon-branded digital short, for instance, while Rogen — alongside another frequent collaborator, James Franco — has appeared in videos with bold-faced YouTubers including The Fine Brothers and Lilly Singh.