Good news, everyone…!
In an interview with the Onion’s A.V. Club, Matt Groening – creator of “Life in Hell,” “The Simpsons,” and “Futurama” – reveals more details about the ongoing adventures of Fry, Leela, Bender.
“We’re going to do four of them, straight to DVD,” says Groening. “And as we speak, I’m exchanging e-mails and ideas with David X. Cohen and Ken Keeler, both of whom worked on the show from the very beginning. Right now, we’re trying to figure out whether to do a giant epic, or separate crazy movies, or what. But I wager that Bender will be featured prominently.”
Groening also talks about how there was once the very real possibility of a Krusty the Klown spin-off.
“I just thought the idea of a live-action Krusty the Clown show would be something Dan (Castellaneta) could go completely crazy with. And halfway through the pitch, Fox said, ‘Can it be a cartoon?’ So okay, we’ll make it a cartoon. And it just got bogged down in the kinds of mysterious machinations that often happen in Hollywood. Maybe someday we’ll do it. I don’t know.”
