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Comic-Con Futurama Panel

After being absent from the recent Comic-Cons for obvious reasons, this Saturday will feature a Futurama-panel on the yearly comic convention:
3:30-4:30 Futurama - Matt Groening is proud to announce the long-awaited return of the animated sci-fi comedy classic Futurama! Matt and executive producer David X. Cohen will be on the dais, accompanied by writer Ken Keeler, animation directors Peter Avanzino and Dwayne Carey- Hill, and for the first time together on stage in any universe, actors Billy West (Fry), Katey Sagal (Leela), John DiMaggio (Bender), and Maurice LaMarche (Kif Kroker)! The cast and crew will entertain your questions and present a sneak peek at Bender

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dmossJul 24th 2007, 20:31
That's so awesome!

So, you know what this means, right? It will be no time before that trailer from Comic-Con reaches YouTube...! :)I SO wish I could be there in-person, though.
arronJul 24th 2007, 21:41
i cant weight for more futurama!
futurefreakJul 24th 2007, 21:42
Saturday is already sold out and they aren't selling them onsite!!!! this is such a bummer... :( curse you simpsons movie!
RichardJul 25th 2007, 06:00
Widescreen? NICE!
andresvillJul 25th 2007, 23:47
awesome!... maybe... just maybe... the trailer might show up before the simpsons movie...

(that's what i have been saying for a long time... hopefully i am right)

either way, like #1 said, it will be no time before the trailer reaches youtube.
lokstirJul 26th 2007, 03:02
omg i wish i could be there. though id probably piss myself and look like a fool
EASJul 26th 2007, 04:25
Joy. Where is the line to buy the new movies. I am thinking of camping out for them now.
monderJul 26th 2007, 06:15
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay I'm realy , realy happy I been waiting for this for long time
GeorgeJul 26th 2007, 21:04
Futurama is the best animated show to ever receive a corporate ax. Family guy is great, but the creators try to humor themselves more than the fans. Futurama is a perfect balance. I personally enjoy the hilarious audio commentaries with John DiMaggio on the season box sets. Show me a release date and I'll have the money ready!
PaulJul 26th 2007, 21:58
This is great news! We'll actually get to see a trailer for the movie we've been waiting so long for! :D

Can't wait until they actually come out :D
DrZoidbergfanJul 27th 2007, 05:59
this is so cool i love Futurama and Zoidberg he's my hero i have all the seasons and every show is so funny i can watch them again, again, and again. thank you.


p.s be sure to put plenty of Zoidberg and his strange noises
crashpunkJul 27th 2007, 13:02
yes!
Futurama is the best show ever made!
its sad that fox have deleted the futurama home page, it was so good
i soooooooooooooooooo can't w8t!
FuturamaRocksJul 27th 2007, 14:55
I really miss Futurama like all of you guys and
Lookie lookie for what i found in the imdb comments.

Thanks for the compliments... yeah, it's really me. I don't know why some have had a hard time believing an actor actually posts on IMDB. I'm a fan of the medium as well as working in it, plus, I appreciate that anyone appreciates my work, and want to let them know I do. I'm just too damn lazy to put up my own website. Plus, it would then rather obligate me to post on a regular basis, and I really only want to post when I have something interesting to say.

Speaking of which, Bender's Big Score is in post, and I assume we'll be tweaking the jokes in ADR soon (as if they weren't brillant enough already). It's set for a 12/4/07 release. The other 3 DVDs are great, too. We just recorded the final one, "Into the Wild Green Yonder" (hey, if I'm not really me, then how would I know that? Just a passing shot to the naysayers as to the veracity of my identity) all this past week. A great script, touching, relevant, a bit awe-inspiring, and of course, full of huge laughs. And the cast was in the finest form, even yours truly, who gets to do a hilarious B-story with The Donbot and Clamps at their funniest and most menacing.

Take care, and thanks for helping revive our little show. That goes also to all of you reading this, which I assume you're doing because you're Futurama fans. We're back because of your actions, both through letters and DVD sales, which let the powers that be know that Futurama is loved and missed.

Best,
Maurice LaMarche
futuramakingnewepisodesJul 27th 2007, 18:12
woohoo, good ole futurama! i really cant wait now! its gona rock hard, harder than anything thats ever been on my telly!!

and nice speach mauricelamarche! :D:D
ClintJul 27th 2007, 19:36
If you cannot read the two security words, refresh the page to get a new image.
SpankyJul 27th 2007, 20:10
What's the deal with all the B's? "Bender's Big..." , "Beast Billion Backs...", etc. Come on! Into the wild green yonder sounds good though, if it involves slurm in some way.
TheHypnoToadJul 27th 2007, 21:29
Awesome, awesome to the max! Hey #13 (FuturamaRocks), care to show us where you found the post by LaMarche? I know it is on IMDB, but a quick check shows at least 10 pages worth of different discussion groups on futurama. Got a link for us?
BendertheOffenderJul 28th 2007, 05:07


Alright!!! I love finding out every little detail. Every little tidbit. I can hardly wait for Dec. 4. It's great to hear from the actors themselves and how excited they are about the project(Thanks Maurice!!) Futurama Rocks!!
LordNibblerJul 28th 2007, 08:58
"Freakin' sweet!" Oops wrong show... ummmm... "Bite my shiny metal ass"...? "Good news everyone"...? Anyone got a Futurama catch phrase that would work better?
gumberculesJul 28th 2007, 09:49
What about comedy central? Aren't they supposed to show these as episodes?
OtisPJivefunkJul 28th 2007, 16:23
It's out on 27th November...
MarcJul 29th 2007, 00:59
(Offtopic)
I just watched the Simpsons Movie -- it had quite a bit of 3D effects in it, just like ... yeah! I missed it for soooo long, those excellent effects! hmmmmmmm...! Only a few months to go!
MiloKamJul 29th 2007, 02:20
I found an update of what happend at the panel. Sounds like a lot of fun, but there is no mention of a trailer being shown, which I was almost certain would have been shown. It should be said that there are some very spoilers about the plot(very very minor, I'm just not sure how sensative people here are to those types of things...)

Here's the link:
IceJul 29th 2007, 03:23
link didn't work....
dmossJul 29th 2007, 04:12
Links NEVER work here. ;)

I've been watching YouTube for the Trailer, since about 7:00, but I haven't seen anything yet. Does anyone have any new information?
ghostbearJul 29th 2007, 06:05
i found this..

tvsquad dot com /2007/07/28/comic-con-futurama-panel-report/
zoidbergloverJul 29th 2007, 07:12
tvblogger dot org /2007/07/comic-con-futurama-is-clear.html

Everything from Comic-Con
spacebeeJul 29th 2007, 09:15
HUZZAH for more futurama!
i3FryJul 29th 2007, 10:03
"oh my, yes!"
can't wait. can't wait.
when i heard about this i almost cried. i'm so excited i can't even sleep.
kneuzJul 29th 2007, 12:30
that's awesome, I'd wish I could make it all the way to Comic Con just to see that sneak peak.
can't wait for someone to post information about the upcoming DVD's online, and to those of you who are actually going... have fun!!
greets,
aaf
JoshJul 29th 2007, 15:30
This is VERY LIKELY a typo but there's an article at IGN about the Simpsons panel at Comic-Con and down near the bottom there's mention of 60 new episodes of Futurama being produced. I have to assume the place was noisy and whoever wrote the article misheard "sixteen" as "sixty."
futuramakingnewepisodesJul 29th 2007, 15:33
dot com/watch?v=5PRnIenhk2g

this is a link to a futurama returns promo, i dont no how offical it is tho!?
ThehodJul 29th 2007, 17:52
#32 what's the start of that link ??????dot com
larsJul 29th 2007, 18:42
^ youtube It's the 3-d bender promo from speedbump studios.
FlealickJul 29th 2007, 19:32
The panel was quite fun, and yes, they did show a five-mintue trailer, though I'm not certain it was all footage from the new film; it opened with a lot of digs at a company named Twentieth-Century Box, and the idiot executives there who cancelled Planet Express' delivery episodes. On a similar note, most of the panel involved the voice actors reading a comic book they were distributing at the Con, which bridged the gab from Planet Express' cancellation, to them getting stuck in an endless time loop at the Carton Network, to the successful release on DVD of Scruffy's Hidden Camera videos. Funny stuff. The panel, with the whole voice acting crew, spent a lot of time discussing voiceover stuff, with lots of talk about the origins of various voices. But as for the details of the new DVDs/episodes, its four movies, broken down into 16 episodes, which will air along with the old episodes on Comedy Central starting 1/1/08. The epsidoes will be reedited, to give them a whole story arc, rather than just cutting the movies into four pieces, but nothing was mentioned about new content. Someone asked if the new episodes will be coming to DVD as well as the movies, and someone on the panel (Cohen, I think) said that Fox would surely be conducting a survey at Comic-Con to see how big of suckers the fans are. And the episodes are being prepared in widescreen and HD (though someone said their initial release wouldn't be in HD, which isn't surprising, as I don't think Comedy Central has an HD channel). When asked about the budgetary contraints of basic cable, it was revealed the soundtrack was made with a synthisizer, not a live orchestra. But while that's too bad, the move to cable means more nudity. When asked if the move to cable meant they could be edgier, someone asked, "Did you not see all the dick jokes in the trailer?"

I'm probably forgetting stuff, but I think you get the idea. They did give a release date for the first DVD, but I didn't write it down--thought it was in the comic book, but it just says Holiday 2007. The date was late November, if memory serves.
MykieJul 29th 2007, 23:59
Haha, Bender's Game. I've been waiting for that title for years :D
RichardJul 30th 2007, 02:11
Er, dick jokes? That's not thrilling news, but we shall see.
Lexx-2Jul 30th 2007, 05:52
Can't wait for this! It's been such a long wait! Did they say anything about any possible future movies/eps subsequent to these four new ones? And when is that promo reel going to be online dammit?!!!?!?!?
PaulJul 30th 2007, 18:33
So there's been no news on that Futurama trailer yet then? :(

You'd think whatever company's behind this would WANT to advertise it knowing how popular it is D:
mccellJul 30th 2007, 20:29
We demand the promo trailer ! :)
FridaWaterfallJul 31st 2007, 00:06
Here's the table read, thanks to gwynhwyfar on PEEL.

you tube dot com / watch ? v = 1Iz5EbLuPZk
RichardJul 31st 2007, 01:33
That'd be real cool if you could understand a thing they weere saying.
EricJul 31st 2007, 02:26
you tube dot com / watch ? v = hEtZHOj4vHo

54 second clip of the trailer
TheInformerJul 31st 2007, 06:50
is the promo for the new futurama. it isnt a trailer but it still mocks FOX network and new futurama i havent seen.
EricJul 31st 2007, 22:25
doesn't matter what anyone calls it, it's NEW Futurama, but David X Cohen calls it a trailer here:

you tube dot com / watch ? v = cCCjrVsP18I

wish i could find the full 5 min version tho...
Did HypnoToad tell everyone not to record the full version?
Nibbler99Aug 1st 2007, 19:36
With all the people in the room, you would think someone would have taped the trailer?! I want to see it again too!!!!

I think you're right Eric... We all feel under the spell of the HypnoToad.
headlessbodyofagnewAug 1st 2007, 20:07
Awesome!!
GigglecamAug 6th 2007, 23:23
a video with the futurama announcement at comicon and the live reading.

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