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FUTURAMA update: It's......?

  • 16-09-2004 5:36pm
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    JBoyle4eva
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    This is quoted from Can't Get Enough Futurama

    Rumours "utterly false"

    As Andie reported a week ago, there have been some rumours about partially finished episodes which were said to have a good chance of getting into production. We had our reservations there. Today, "The Movie Hole posted a new article which states:
    At the time the show was put on hiatus by the network, there were multiple episodes in the early to 50% stage of development (of what was actually the fifth season of the show), and while these won’t be appearing on television anytime soon, Fox has apparently commissioned the remainder of these episodes to appear in another DVD box set [...] This has since spread around the internet with some sites talking about yet more unrevealed sources indicating said things.

    So, I asked Futurama's executive producer David X. Cohen to clarify the situation. His answer was
    "I have no idea where any of this is coming from. [...] Everything in [the above quoted] paragraph is utterly false. Someone is having fun torturing the show's fans with phony info, I'm afraid."
    Describing the state of the show, he subsumes that
    "There are zero scripts in any partial stage of writing, animation, or development. DVD sales have been very good, so we'll continue lobbying Fox periodically to consider making new episodes. But nothing is happening at present."
    Sorry people, wait till someone quoting an authoritative source reports that something is going on ;)

    16-09-2004 [-mArc-]


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  • #2
    JBoyle4eva
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    New Matt Groening interview in EW

    Matt Groening (Creator, Futurama, Simpsons) was interviewed in the September 10th issue of Entertainment Weekly - But hey, guess what? We nerdy computer people get an extended online-only version of the same interview thanks to ew.com. Here's a snippet:
    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.

    Remember to read this in context of our earlier report on come-back rumors. So please, don't post "OMG futurama iz teh back!!!! LOOLLZz" in the comments feature of this article.
    25-09-2004 Jon


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