Disney have introduced {that a} sequel to The Simpsons Film is coming to cinemas in 2027.
It’ll have been 20 years for the reason that iconic animated household have been on the large display screen by the point of the sequel’s launch, with Disney subsidiary twentieth Century Studios confirming the discharge date for the brand new film shall be July 23, 2027.
As famous by Selection, that date had been provisionally put aside in Disney’s future plans for a brand new Marvel undertaking, however that movie has now been faraway from the schedules, which means there’ll now be no entry within the Marvel Cinematic Universe between Avengers: Doomsday in December 2026 and Avengers: Secret Wars in December 2027.
“Woohoo! The Simpsons are coming to theaters with an all-new film on July 23, 2027!” the official Instagram web page for twentieth Century Studios posted this night (September 29). The submit reveals a yellow hand greedy a pink donut with ‘2’ sprinkles, alongside a tagline: “Homer’s coming again for seconds”.
The Simpsons Film was launched in 2007 and was a significant hit, incomes over $500million on the international field workplace towards a $75million finances. It noticed the residents of Springfield being confined below an enormous glass dome after Homer’s pet pig causes an environmental catastrophe.
A possible sequel has been mentioned for a few years – in 2015, government producer Al Jean described it as a 50/50 risk, whereas 4 years later, present creator Matt Groening stated he was in “little doubt” that it could occur “certainly one of nowadays”.
In 2022, Jean offered an replace, saying he was eager to work on a sequel, however he was “cautious” about committing to the undertaking because of the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of the field workplace.
In different Simpsons information, showrunner Matt Selman stated the brand new season of the present wouldn’t be tackling up to date US politics in the identical approach that South Park has been doing not too long ago.
“It’s not our mission assertion to reply to the disaster of the second,” he stated. “It’s extra a couple of city of good-natured dum-dums coping with a altering world, but our characters by no means actually change. The world modifications round them.”
The opening episode of the thirty seventh season of the legendary sitcom premiered on Fox on Sunday night time (September 28), with this run set to incorporate the present’s 800th episode.
