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Futurama may be back on DVD
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Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
As long as we can pretend The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings is still the last episode, it's too perfect a way to end the series for anything else to take that place.
themadcowtipper
Smells faintly of rancid stilton.
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BuckRobotron
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I'm all over anything new for Futurama. Only TV series I have DVDs for.
There is more news on GotFuturama.com
including this from Billywest.com
"Well, I spoke to David X.Cohen because we did promos for a new Futurama compilation and he said that they did have talks with the top guys at FOX and they were extremely impressed with the sales of the Futurama DVDs. The idea was to make a Futurama movie right to DVD and then a 2nd and a 3rd. That's what's being discussed. Fox is trying to figure out a budget for the whole project, and it sounded like David X. was very jazzed!
I would love more than anything to do that show again. I thought it was best experience on every level... creatively, voice-wise, writing, animation and the laughs. The laughs. Writers and performers that respected each other."
including this from Billywest.com
"Well, I spoke to David X.Cohen because we did promos for a new Futurama compilation and he said that they did have talks with the top guys at FOX and they were extremely impressed with the sales of the Futurama DVDs. The idea was to make a Futurama movie right to DVD and then a 2nd and a 3rd. That's what's being discussed. Fox is trying to figure out a budget for the whole project, and it sounded like David X. was very jazzed!
I would love more than anything to do that show again. I thought it was best experience on every level... creatively, voice-wise, writing, animation and the laughs. The laughs. Writers and performers that respected each other."
JoshuaJSlone
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The problem with that was, my brain couldn't figure out which voice to imagine those words in, and kept switching it up.robochimp said:
Haha.....I'm pretty sure that there isn't an entire season that Fox never aired. The show reportedly cost 1-2 million per episode, and I doubt that the network would leave 20 of them sitting around at that price.
The frustrating thing about this is that the production cycles are long, and even if it got resurrected it would take 12-18 months for any new material to appear (like with Family Guy).
The frustrating thing about this is that the production cycles are long, and even if it got resurrected it would take 12-18 months for any new material to appear (like with Family Guy).
I always wonder what kind of deal Matt Groening signed/has with Fox on the Simpsons. Maybe it's how it was even born in the first place, but I imagine he would have done well to use his Simpsons leverage to push for better Futurama slotting/advertising/support.
Some of his reported comments about Fox's treatment of Futurama suggest he was pretty stung by what happened to it. But it's quite possible Fox has his nuts in some sort of vice grip with their Simpsons contract.
Some of his reported comments about Fox's treatment of Futurama suggest he was pretty stung by what happened to it. But it's quite possible Fox has his nuts in some sort of vice grip with their Simpsons contract.
ManDudeChild
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Flynn said:
So you're saying there are only a few unseen ones?
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