David Bridges
A trailer for a live-action film based mostly on The Simpsons, that includes Adam Sandler as Homer, has not too long ago gone viral on social media and YouTube.
The YouTube channel Multiverse of AI launched the trailer final week on August 8. Though the identify of their channel ought to have hinted to viewers that the trailer won’t be for an actual undertaking, hypothesis a couple of new movie gained loads of traction.
As beforehand talked about, the trailer starred Sandler as the daddy determine, nevertheless it additionally included Kristen Wiig as Marge, Jacob Tremblay as Bart, and Younger Sheldon’s Mckenna Grace as Lisa.
The faux Simply Go along with It star additionally narrated the clip, describing every character within the present: Will Ferrell as Ned Flanders, Steve Buscemi as Montgomery Burns, John C. Reilly as Barney Gumble, Invoice Hader as Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, and extra. Though followers couldn’t assist however really feel that these actors may painting these iconic characters properly, the eerie, warping AI visuals—and the truth that a lot of the AI-created characters regarded significantly youthful than they’re now—made this actual creation removed from actuality.
The trailer ended straight after introducing the characters. There was no point out of a launch date or any producers concerned with the movie.
Will there be one other Simpsons film?
Whereas Matt Groening, the creator of the Fox sitcom, has stated he has “no doubts” {that a} second Simpsons film—in its animated type—will occur, a sequel isn’t actively within the works proper now.
In 2014, producer James L. Brooks stated the staff was “requested to [develop it].”
“However we haven’t. We’re doing numerous different stuff.”
Al Jean later revealed that Season 26’s “The Man Who Got here to Be Dinner,” the place the household is transported to Kang and Kodos’ planet, was thought-about because the plot for a characteristic movie.
Three years later, David Silverman informed Leisure Weekly: “I’d love for there to be one other one. We’re nonetheless a methods away from it. We discuss this and that. “We’re considering it over, however nothing’s taking place simply but… it’s nonetheless daunting as a result of it actually knocked the stuffing out of us to do the film and the present on the similar time.”
In 2019, Groening informed Comedian-Con attendees: “Little question there will likely be one other Simpsons film one in all lately. I feel Disney needs one thing for its cash.” Nonetheless, he warned: “It is a true reply. The primary Simpsons Film nearly killed us.
“We didn’t have a B-team ready to do The Simpsons Film, so the identical individuals who wrote, animated, voiced, and did the music for The Simpsons TV present additionally did the film. That was in 2007. We’re nearly recovered, nearly.”
Co-showrunner Matt Selman additional defined the challenges of constructing a film fairly than a brand new season to ComicBook in Might 2024.
He described the stresses of constructing a film as “a lot, a lot increased than a TV present,” explaining how making a Simpsons film takes “about the identical quantity of labor as 30 episodes” of The Simpsons.
“However a brand new ‘Simpsons’ film could be superb. We simply want the appropriate concept and a billion hours to make it nice” he added.
Maya Kensington
