# Groening confirms Futurama movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613 "2006-04-28T16:36:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/1 "2006-04-28T16:36:23Z")
In [this interview](http://www.avclub.com/content/node/47771) on The Onion AV Club, Matt Groening confirms that 4 straight-to-DVD Futurama movies will be made. Is this actually going to happen, do we think? It’s been suggested many times in recent years. > [@Matt Groening](#): > > We’re going to do four of them, straight to DVD. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/2 "2006-04-28T17:44:40Z")
> [@Fromage A Trois](#): > > Is this actually going to happen, do we think? Sweet mysteria of Algeria! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/3 "2006-04-28T18:45:25Z")
Heh. > [@Matt Groening](#): > > There’s a long, regal history of misunderstood TV shows, and to Fox’s credit, the studio […] saw that there was more money to be made. Faint praise, wot? ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/4 "2006-04-28T22:48:34Z")
Billy West confirmed this a month or two ago on his website (though I can’t find a link to the story)… ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/5 "2006-04-28T22:57:16Z")
Sweet cattle of seattle! Niceness. Though I had read earlier that they were doing this, but it was from ther sources, not The Man himself. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/6 "2006-04-29T01:55:41Z")
> [@Hail Ants](#): > > Billy West confirmed this a month or two ago on his website (though I can’t find a link to the story)… Yeah, but he’s made mistakes before. The voice actors don’t seem to know a whole lot more than the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/7 "2006-04-29T02:21:18Z")
> [@DeadlyAccurate](#): > > Yeah, but he’s made mistakes before. The voice actors don’t seem to know a whole lot more than the rest of us. Billy West _did_ make a mistake in his original announcement- he believed that the series was being picked up for a whole 22-episode season. This turned out not to be the case. > [@Fromage A Trois](#): > > Is this actually going to happen, do we think? It’s been suggested many times in recent years. Then again, a _Simpsons_ movie has been suggested many times, too. And since it was officially announced this March 31, many people (including myself) were skeptical if the announcement was real or an early April Fools’ joke. The Groening interview was very interesting. And I’ve seen pictures of him before, but I must say from the photo that appears in the interview that Mr. Groening is actually a handsome fellow (and this is a man saying this!) And I’m glad he says that he thinks that people quoting Simpsons lines he meets on the street are not quoting the show, but insane, since he’s right. Most of us Simpsons fans _are_ insane. Now let’s go back to that place where our beds and TV…is. ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/8 "2006-04-29T10:57:17Z")
I thought the onion was only a satire newspaper. I didn’t know they actually interview people. 😕 Then again it would be a very cruel joke toplay on people Well, it sounds like good news to me. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/9 "2006-04-29T16:55:25Z")
Sweet llama of the Bahamas! I had sort of given up on it, thinking Billy West was being over-optimistic, but if Matt Groening says so, it must be true. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/10 "2006-04-29T18:43:34Z")
If this turns out to be for real, I will sing and dance and scream. Maybe even cry. This is _great_ news. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/11 "2006-04-29T20:21:43Z")
> [@BluePitbull](#): > > I thought the onion was only a satire newspaper. I didn’t know they actually interview people. _The Onion_ **is** a satire newspaper, but their “AV Club” section, in which they review entertainment and talk to entertainment personalities, is 100% serious. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/12 "2006-04-29T23:26:20Z")
[Obligatory link](http://www.avclub.com/content/) to the indispensible Onion AVClub. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groening-confirms-futurama-movies/354613/13 "2006-04-30T09:02:53Z")
Sweet wolverine of the Philippines! (well, everyone else is doing it . . . ) Damn do I ever hope this happens . . . I was just watching old Futurama episodes tonight. Man, that is one of the best TV shows ever made.