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Ice Cube, 'Futurama' Co-Creator Team Up For Hip-Hop Cartoon

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Ripclawe

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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1492963/20041022/ice_cube.jhtml?headlines=true

An animated sitcom about an early '80s hip-hop crew could be coming to the small screen, thanks to one of the genre's leading figures.

Ice Cube, his Cube Vision Productions partner Matt Alvarez, and "Futurama" co-creator David X. Cohen are executive producing a pilot tentatively titled "Grandmaster Freak & the Furious 15" (an obvious nod to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five) for a potential FOX series.
 

J2 Cool

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what the hell is Matt Groening doing these days? In any case, it's good to know he wasnt stupid enough to get involved with Ice Cube. He's not exactly the rocket to success :)
 

Catalyst

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Yay, more unlearning of the English language and encouraging of American youth to do drugs and glamorize pop culture. Woohoo. Word.
 

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Claus

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Be-Ah-Hui said:
Meh. I want more Futurama episodes dammit

Reruns get great ratings on the Cartoon Network. Any chance of a ''Family Guy''-like resurrection for ''Futurama''?
We're trying to figure it out. If we can do more episodes, we'd love to. It's a very ambitious show, and it's very expensive. That's been a sticking point. What [co-developer] David Cohen and I would love is to continue many of the stories we worked out in advance. All science-fiction epics have an underlying theme, which is ''things are not what they seem to be,'' and that was certainly the case with ''Futurama.'' David and I worked for a couple of years [planning the show] before we even pitched it, and we haven't revealed all of the secrets that are embedded in it. There are even characters that we created back in the beginning of the series that we never got around to introducing. It looks like a goofy cartoon, but the underlying science-fiction ideas are pretty good.

-http://www.ew.com/ew/groening

Shame Cartoon Network can't front the budget for a show like Futurama though. :\
 
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