February 11, 2004
The Simpsons Movie becoming a reality
From Variety.Com via Yahoo:
There's exxx-cellent news for fans of "The Simpsons": Homer and the gang may finally be coming to the bigscreen. After years of rumors and wishful thinking, "Simpsons" gurus Matt Groening and James L. Brooks (news) are leading a team of writers in actively developing an animated bigscreen feature based on the long-running Fox hit. Active work on a concept for the pic began a few months ago, after 20th Century Fox's film division hammered out deals with key writers.Good grief. Can you say "Box Office"? I will be the first in line to see this. Can you imagine what the writers of The Simpsons can do when they have 6 or 9 months to work on just one LONG episode? You can read the whole Simpsons article here.
Posted by John Campea at February 11, 2004 05:05 PM
Comments
Posted by: Day-vuhl at February 11, 2004 05:12 PM
WORST.MOVIE.EVER!!!
;)
Posted by: David Poe at February 12, 2004 12:35 AM
If done well this should rule, but it's mighty hard to take a show with normal running times resting at 22 minutes of actual footage and stretch it out into feature length, especially a show like the Simpsons where the episodes are often quite fragmented in the first place ... how many successful tv show adaptations have there been? I'm hopeful, but leery ...
That said, the trailer for the Spongebob Squarepants movie (my son watched 4+ hours of Spongbob today and I didn't go insane, thus it is a good show. And I am a bad father.) is an utter masterpiece of revisionist editing ... go check it out and see what I mean ...
Posted by: Bubba at February 13, 2004 10:39 PM
The Simpsons rules! I can't wait 'till tha movie comes out! My fave actor is Dan Castenella and my fave actress is Nancy Cartwright. I also love Yeardly and Julie. I think Matt Groening is doing a really good job on the show.
I have been an avid Simpsons fan for three and a half years. If i love tha tv show i know i'll love tha movie! :)
Good luck!:)
Posted by: Ayana at February 18, 2005 06:44 PM
I'm sure I would stand in line to see it to, However, I'm actually *Against* a Simpsons movie.
Yup. I say keep it as a show. I'm actually glad they haven't made a movie as of yet.