Excellent news, everybody: Though Futurama has been killed off and resurrected extra instances than Jason Voorhees, now it’s again for season 12. And whereas two extra 10-episode seasons have already been given the go-ahead, one can’t assist however marvel: the place will the present go from there? Will it get canceled but once more, then introduced again at some future date, presumably when the forged members are all simply heads in jars?
Seeing because the present has sustained a loyal fan base for the previous quarter century, why not make the following logical step by bringing Futurama to the large display screen? Certainly multiplexes all around the world could be packed stuffed with Futurama followers and/or connoisseurs of jerks who choose fights in film theaters.
Properly, the makers of the present have been considering the identical factor. As government producers David X. Cohen and Claudia Katz lately revealed to ComicBook.com throughout Comedian-Con, they’ve actively “lobbied” for a Futurama film, and consider that the present is “actually, rather well suited to options.”
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Positive, there have been 4 straight-to-DVD Futurama “motion pictures” prior to now, starting with Bender’s Massive Rating, however these don’t precisely rely. “That was an amazing difficult course of as a result of every one needed to be constructed to additionally decompose into 4 TV episodes,” Cohen admitted, referring to a previous deal that necessitated dividing every film into particular person episodes to later air on Comedy Central.
Plus, Futurama would work rather well on a giant display screen, arguably to a higher diploma than Matt Groening’s different long-running cartoon, which already acquired a film adaptation in 2007, regardless of happening within the boring outdated twenty first century. “I feel possibly much more than The Simpsons, it’s simply extra conducive to an excellent thrilling characteristic,” Katz argued, mentioning that once they’ve screened episodes in film theaters for the forged and crew, it appears to be like “improbable.”
This isn’t the primary time that producers have floated the thought of a Futurama film. Again in 2009, Cohen and Groening advised IGN that they had been actively making an attempt to get a film made, once more arguing that “Futurama would lend itself completely to a film, much more so than The Simpsons.” Groening additionally divulged that he’d been toying with the thought of spearheading a live-action Futurama film. “The one factor we will’t determine is easy methods to do Leela with one eye in stay motion,” Groening admitted.
“It could be very disturbing,” Cohen agreed. Judging from the 2016 live-action Futurama fan movie, Fan-O-Rama, they had been proper! It’s certainly disturbing!
Getting a Futurama film into theaters could be one thing of an uphill battle, contemplating that the newest instance of a film primarily based on a beloved grownup animated sequence, The Bob’s Burgers Film, didn’t accomplish that nicely on the field workplace. The truth is, it straight-up flopped, regardless of being fairly good.
However owing to its sci-fi premise, a theatrical Futurama characteristic would possibly make its case to audiences higher than Bob’s Burgers, which, on account of its grounded nature, was doubtless a more durable promote, particularly after a number of pandemic-related delays. Some Futurama episodes already really feel appropriately cinematic.
In the event that they ever do make a film, relaxation assured that Futurama followers will undoubtedly reply by posting memes instructing everyone to close up and take their cash.
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