HERE'S GREAT NEWS! Here's the official word on Futurama!! David X. phoned me about an hour ago and said that this Futurama project is a done deal! Here's the word from DX--- There are 4 DVD movies that we'll start recording at the end of July or August.Full feature length FUTURAMA movies. Everybody is excited to get back together--as I am!
Into the Future, Billy
Hooorah! I'm going to drink a can of motor oil to celebrate, then I'm going to go kiss Bender's shiny metal ass!
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I saw something about this in [adult swim]'s bumps last night. I'm not sure if they did this on purpose or not, but the bump was just before a Futurama episode where the subtitle under the opening title said "Coming soon to an illegal DVD". In any case, WOO HOO!
B.J. (Half suprised Billy West didn't start that saying "Good news, everyone!")
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It's been in the planning pipe for a while now. God bless FOX's willingness to actually listen to DVD sales. It's what got us Family Guy, Serenity, and now Futurama back for AT LEAST one more hurrah.
However, note that "feature length" is an extremely flexible term. Even the recent Family Guy movie was barely longer than three episodes, since all they did was strap three regular episodes together with a loose overall plot, and some extra filler. And in Wal-Mart, half the kids DVDs these days are billed as "feature length" but are barely over an hours long... Methinks that these four movies will be along the same lines as the Family Guy DVD, with slightly tighter stories but which can also be broken down into a 13-16 episode season of regular episodes.
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Well, yes, this is nice and all, but in my opinion it's a downgrade from the earlier news/rumor of a few months ago that the show was going to be coming back with actual episodes. For one thing, I always worry when things like this change formats. Does a carefully crafted Futurama episode work when doubled in size?
Also, Universal apparently was interested in Serenity as part of its deal with Whedon ("OK, do this thing you want, and then make us a bunch of money.") before Firefly DVD sales had amounted to much.
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If the new Futurama is anything like the Family Guy movie, I'll be a bit disappointed. I love the original three series of Family Guy, and what I've seen of the fourth is good, but the movie was lacking something. The jokes were still there, but it felt far too loose and the plot fell apart towards the end. Also I really dislike the self-referential humour. Bringing back the chicken in the fourth series worked, but the greased-up-deaf-guy seems to be everywhere now in some kind of wierd fourth-wall breaking role that really doesn't do much for me.
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The GUDG hasn't shown up for a while since the return of Family Guy. I'm a little more annoyed right now at the appearances of the two "play me out" Vaudeville players, who seem to show up whenever the writers can't figure out how to end a scene.
The FG movie was alright, and the lack of censorship was a neat highlight (watch it with subtitles sometime - those ARE still censored!), but on the whole I agree with you. However, that movie was not really MEANT to be a movie from the get-go; the three episodes were written for TV, and then were corralled into becoming one when they got a request from FOX, as I recall. I would hope that a Furutama movie set would feature better-scripted plots able to fit both episodic and feature-length products.
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I think Futurama lends itself more to a movie format than an episode one: there's so much more that can be done that way, and really, some of the episodes seem rushed in their final segment.
Besides, think of all the fun crap we'll have to watch for in the backgrounds now!
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For me, the turning point for the Simpsons was the 200th episode, where Homer becomes Sanitation Commisioner. That one was great (Including the U2 cameo). After that, serious 'meh' factor.
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I thought the most recent one was rather funny, but I think that might have something to do with the fact that some of the stuff in it was almost like "in-jokes" for my brother and I.
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Yeah. Over here, the simpsons have swapped to a different network (BBC used, and now Channel 4 have em) and have started to run from the very begining again.
But to be honest that might be a good thing. The few 'new' eppisodes i've watched at my parents house sucked. And they've all signed lucrative contracts until the next decade. Bugger.
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