Futurama Making A Come Back

[Phinz420]

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It’s been a great ride for creator Matt Groening who is shepherding THE SIMPSONS MOVIE into theaters on July 27 as well as brand new episodes of his cult series FUTURAMA which was unceremoniously cancelled by Fox, only to find an after-life on DVD and the Cartoon Network. Starting in 2008, 16 new episodes are being produced which will also be turned into four direct-to-DVD movies. The first --FUTURAMA: BENDER’S BIG SCORE -- will be released December 2007.

iF MAGAZINE: Can you explain how there will be 16 new episodes and the DVD movies at once.

MATT GROENING: We’re doing four DVD movies around ninety minutes and then we’re going to reconfigure those and they’ll be episodes on Comedy Central. The impolite way of saying it is we’re chopping them up and the polite way is to say we’re reconfiguring and we’re going to add narration and more stuff. We’re going to be doing some fun extras on the DVD show, there’s going to be "Everybody Loves Hyptno-Toad" – a whole show of it. The DVD’s are going to be self-contained packages, but the episodes will also work, we hope. That’s the goal.


iF: You have said in the past that Fox always loved THE SIMPSONS, but when FUTURAMA was on the network, they always treated it as a ******* step-child. How do you feel now going into this new venture with FUTURAMA?

GROENING: What’s really fun, is every single person who worked on the original show was eager to come back. The entire original cast Katey Sagal, Billy West, John Di Maggio, Maurice LaMarche. They all came on board. The same animation house Rough Draft is back and the same animators are too.

iF: When will you know if you’re going to have a second batch of FUTURAMA episodes?

GROENING: Probably not until 2008. Maybe somebody will get inspired, but we are doing these four movies and sixteen episodes and that’s good. It’s a good start.


iF: Will there will be any new characters added to FUTURUAMA?

GROENING: We’ve got a giant alien octopus that mates with every person on earth with its tentacles. And in the first movie, Sarah Silverman plays a cameo and Al Gore. Al Gore is back!

[Cool Calm Mike]

Bender Bending Rodriguez is a classic character!

[Phin-o-rama]

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

[SickFinFan33]

fantastic

[King Nate]

Best.show.ever.

[Dolphin1184]

Instead of dragging out the simpsons to a 30th season, they should have built on Futurama. Glad that the show is coming back.

[tylerdolphin]

I love futurama. I watch it almost every night on adult swim

[guatemalanfan]

wow great news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[icephinfan]

Good deal. Like that show.

[Dolfan984]

VERY underrated show

[Phin-o-rama]

[Mike13]

Originally Posted by mjwenz

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Bender Bending Rodriguez is a classic character!

Bender is the man-bot.

[In_Flames]

Originally Posted by Dolfan984

VERY underrated show

:yeahthat:

[Bruzer]

Yea they will be on Adult Swim in 2008 I can't wait.

[Phinz420]

Originally Posted by Phin-o-rama

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