Ralph Snart
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« Reply #280 on: 08-21-2006 02:36 »
« Last Edit on: 08-21-2006 02:36 »
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An exceprt from Marice's interview. Click on the link to see the entire, long and very interesting interview. Read between the lines in the excerpt about AS not having the money to make new eps but CC does. That's says a lot to me. Your milage may vary. ---------------- http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/?p=1153&page=1 ---------------- QS: It was surprising that it got snatched away from Adult Swim by Comedy Central. LAMARCHE: Yeah, although I don’t know that Adult Swim could have bid high enough to cover the expense of making new episodes. QS: Right. LAMARCHE: I just don’t know if they had it in their budget. Comedy Central, I think, may actually have deeper pockets. QS: But I also think that they’re looking to use this as a cornerstone in build their own animation block, which they’ve been trying for years to do. LAMARCHE: Yeah. QS: Which is a definitely vote of confidence for the series. LAMARCHE: Yes. Yes. May it last a good long time.
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Groovy Fox
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The new dvds are getting me very excited and I'm so looking forward to it. I heard they are going to be four full length dvd movies. Hope it's true. Can't wait.
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SonicPanther
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Seriously? The first DVD is almost done!?
I'm getting a feeling of a weird mixture of happiness and excitement that makes me want to throw up. But in a good way!
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Nixorbo
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Originally posted by Futurama Llama: 2) a very large decline in Simpsons quality You're about 5 years too late for that one.
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readymade
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Dude, YES!!!!!! Its so good its too good to be true, i hope its true
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Xanfor
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« Reply #303 on: 08-26-2006 09:45 »
« Last Edit on: 08-26-2006 09:45 »
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All this talk about Xmas movies has made me want to come up with a Christmas love story. Zoom!I'm so excited I wish I had pants! (Ok, that didn't come out right...) Anyway... Rereading the thread for info, and what should I find? Originally posted by KurtPikachu2001: A lot of shippers hope that Futurama will pick up from where it left off with Devil's Hands. The whole Fry/Leela relationship thing. Say what? Do you even know us? Having 'Futurama' pick up at the end of that episode would be terribly cheap and we would all be horribly disappointed. Na, you're all right. Come join us.
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SpaceCase
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Originally posted by tyraniak: Well, that is when the series first ended, supposedely the Time Bender Trilogy takes place after tha, as I have yet to read it, but it would make sense for the first new episode to take place after the last old episode The events occurring in the comics aren’t canon. Originally posted by Invader Jenny: In fact, aren't some of the new episodes coming from scripts that were originally written before the show got cancelled? So of course they are going to take up right where they left off. There were un-produced scripts left over from before the show was cancelled er... not renewed? As I understand it, the makers of the show recognized just how unlikely the renewal of the show was before the fact. At least long enough before the fact to make “TDHaIP” something of a concluding episode for the series. Knowing there wasn’t even a 1 in 10e19 chance of the show being picked up for another season, why would they continue working on scripts they knew would never be produced?
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futz
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I remember reading there were no unproduced scripts as well. But I'm sure there were a lot of ideas tossed around. It's probably sort of mirky what would be considered "a script" vs. doodles, bits, scenes, and "that gives me an idea"s. "Script" sort of implies a finished episode ready for approval. Now we could probably hear some "now we can do this thing we couldn't do before" in the process too.
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Nasty Pasty
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Very good news indeed.
I certainly wouldnt mind seeing a new Futurama DVD under my Xmas tree this year...
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Xanfor
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I third that without cutting it up into little pieces.
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Craven
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o wow this is so awesome i really couldn't beleave the series has ended with the 5th season and yet it will rise again from the ashes ... as bender sais in the Bender should not be on television episode at the end of the episode when everybody screams the name of a show-in-the-show Bender Screams Futurama! that's when i got hope for the series to rise again... ya know groening wouldn't make bender say this if it weren't his heart's bidding anyways i wanna see the new episodes oh and one more thing i dont understand what you are talking about on this page ... maybe someone could sum it up in 5-8 sentences thanks in advance
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Xanfor
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Weird news... Well, actually, good yet probably old news! Everyone! I couldn't think of anywhere else to post this, so... Last night, I was watching TBS. As you know, they air 'Futurama' late at night. (Only one more episode and I'll have seen the entire series!) Anyway, on TBS at the time, they were playing 'Funniest Wedding Outtakes', starring, of course, Katey Sagal as narrator. (By the way, her name is pronounced 'Segal'.) So she's narrating, and wait, this is the good bit... Originally said by Katey Sagal:
Is it just me, or is that little boy a dead ringer for Bobby on 'King of the Hill'? Airs Sunday night at eight on FOX, right after 'Futurama'. Originally said by Katey Sagal a little later in the program:
...Let's just call this 'The Wedding X Files'. And be sure to watch 'Futurama'. I am not kidding. Granted, the show was made a long time ago, when 'Futurama' was on the air, but still...
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SpaceCase
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[Reads Xanfor's post] [hums "Twilight Zone" theme] Doo dee do do, Doo dee do do... [/TZ] I kid, I kid. I suspicion MG/DXC knew something we mere mortals did not.
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i_c_weiner
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The things Ralph posted on the last page intrigue me, especially that RDS reads PEEL for opinions of the show and Matt is not working on The Simpsons right now to make Futurama's first new stuff since 2003 that aren't comics perfect. Too bad that RDS can't look at the FanFics. There are some good ones, such as The Sting from Fry's point of view, which could be a Star Trek revisting an episode-esque episode. I think Venus wrote that.
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Ralph Snart
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Katey was extremely busy at that time. The last line she spoke in "Devil's Hands" were recorded months after the rest of the show was (once it was confirmed that no new eps were being ordered and her schedule allowed her to some in and record the line. She was busy with "8 Simple Rules" and with raising her 2 children. Katey is very fond of "Leela" - she credits Leela for keeping her from being typecast as "Peg Bundy" and allowing her the chance to do other characters.
As for not being allowed to read the fan fics - that's a legality. If an new ep looked too simular to a fic, the writer of the fic would have a legal right to sue for compensation.
What has surprised DXC was the extent of 'shippers' loved the idea of a Fry/Leela combination. Originally it was thought that Bender would be the runaway character, but Bendermania pales in comparison to the Fry/Leela angle. Matt and DXC want to stay true to the base - the people who wouldn't let the show die, so at the end we will get what we want - a definative ending to the Fry/Leela arc.
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