“The Simpsons” are going again to theaters! It is onerous to imagine that it has been nearly 20 years because the most beloved animated household graced the massive display screen with what stays one of many funniest animated motion pictures of the 2000s (even when there are some bizarre selections). The film was greater than only a lengthy episode of the TV present, however a big-scale story with large stakes and a plot simply ludicrous sufficient to really feel at house in Springfield.
Now, twentieth Century Studios has introduced that Homer and the remainder of the household are returning for seconds in an all-new film, to be launched on July 23, 2027. By the point the film comes out, will probably be nearly precisely 20 years (minus a few days) away from the twentieth anniversary of the primary film, which was already launched practically 20 years after the beginning of the present in 1989.
We all know nothing of the film apart from it is a sequel to “The Simpsons Film” and the discharge date. It is unknown whether or not it is going to see the return of the writing workers that labored on the primary movie (just about all the best writers from the earliest seasons of the present assembling Avengers-style to write down the film) or if the sequel will make use of the brand new writing staff that has made the current seasons of the longest-running scripted primetime sequence in American historical past — seasons which can be arguably very, very good.
Nonetheless, having “The Simpsons” again on the massive display screen is good news, particularly given the state of animation at the moment.
Hollywood wants The Simpsons
Merely put, as a lot as animation thrives and is continually saving the field workplace, the Walt Disney Company has been struggling in terms of the artwork type. It has been years since a Disney film has been nominated for the Oscar for Finest Animated Characteristic, not to mention gained it. Even Pixar motion pictures, as soon as sure-fire hits, are failing on the field workplace. What’s the company to do however depend on essentially the most fixed, dependable, and long-lasting profitable animated property they’ve at their disposal to save lots of their field workplace? Regardless of what naysayers would have you ever imagine, “The Simpsons” isn’t solely nonetheless good, however it’s also profitable sufficient to nonetheless be renewed season after season.
The query is, what will likely be of the poor workers compelled to make the film, after the primary one practically killed the crew? There’s additionally the matter of the voice forged, who should not getting any youthful. Changing one of many forged members on the TV present that arguably would not have as huge a rankings monitor report because it used to is one factor, however to switch them on the massive display screen? That is trickier.
There’s additionally the matter of field workplace and whether or not individuals will present up in hordes to pay to look at one thing they will watch without spending a dime on TV — a joke made by Homer within the opening scene of the primary film, which has solely grow to be timelier within the period of streaming and Disney conditioning audiences to attend for Disney+.
If there’s one film that may doubtlessly change all that, a film based mostly on an iconic TV present that sufficient individuals all over the world acknowledge to the purpose of driving en masse to theaters for, it is “The Simpsons.”
