The 4 Futurama Movies News Thread

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OK, I've trawled through the original 4 DVD Movies thread for actual news.  Please, try to keep this thread relatively clean, so that it will be easy to find actual, factual news regarding the movies.

Reaction to stuff is good, but please keep moderation in mind.

The self-control kind of moderation, not the website moderators kind.

Actually, them too.

             

Originally posted by Kif White, Jan 19, 2006:
Good news everyone! Check out this post from Billy West at his message board:
second post from the bottom
             

From Billy West:
HERE'S GREAT NEWS!
Here's the official word on Futurama!!
David X. phoned me about an hour ago and said that this Futurama project
is a done deal! Here's the word from DX---
There are 4 DVD movies that we'll start recording at the end of July or
August.Full feature length FUTURAMA movies.
Everybody is excited to get back together--as I am!

Into the Future,
Billy

         

Futurama Comic-con '07 Panel
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7

         

Return of Futurama Comic (Comic-con '07)
Originally posted by RatchetMan:
Apparently too much UBB code breaks these forums. Here are just the links. http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=0716&f=1_1028.jpg  http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=0716&f=2_651.jpg  http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=0716&f=3_477.jpg  http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=0716&f=4_311.jpg  http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=0716&f=5_259.jpg  http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=0716&f=6_210.jpg  http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=0716&f=7_152.jpg  http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=0716&f=8_145.jpg  http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=0716&f=9_127.jpg

1 = Bender's Big Score December 4thNovember 27th, 2007 Full 2-minute trailer
2 = The Beast With A Billion Backs June 24th, 2008 Preview animatic
3 = Bender's Game November 2008
4 = Into the Wild Green Yonder  April 2009

Release schedule from an insert in the British Bender's Big Score dvd

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IMDb is now listing all four Futurama direct-to-DVD movies.
The first one, "Bender's Big Score," of course.
The as-yet unnamed "Futurama Movie 2," "Futurama Movie 3," and the fourth, "Into the Wild Green Yonder."

"Bender's Big Score," is the only one with content, so far.

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Quick (and probably stupid) question about Maurice LaMarche's post on IMDb: what does ADR stand for? Is that the abbreviations for either the second or third Futurama Movie, or is he referring to something non-Futurama? Thanks.

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additional dialogue recording. It means they'll bring the actors back to record altered lines. It's sometimes called Automated dialogue replacement.

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Maurice LaMarche filled in the blanks for us on June 30, 2007

1 = Bender's Big Score
2 = The Beast With A Billion Backs
3 = Bender's Game
4 = Into the Wild, Green Yonder
 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005606/board/nest/78395299

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It's odd that there's no puns or parodies with these titles. That's not very Futurama-ish.

Noticing that he is on IMDB, why hasn't anybody invited Maurice to PEEL yet?

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Originally posted by i_c_weiner:
It's odd that there's no puns or parodies with these titles.

You fail.  You fail hard

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An interview with Lauren Tom (voice of Amy)
 http://tv.ign.com/articles/801/801261p1.html

Most important excerpts (relating to the return of the show) below:

"I asked Tom about her return to Futurama, and she told me "We just did sixteen episodes and we just recorded the last four, and that was a big tear-fest."
...
As for the show continuing past these additional 16 episodes, Tom remarked, "We're keeping our fingers crossed that it will go on and have more of a life, because when we did the last table read, [Executive Producer] David X. Cohen said 'Welcome to the very last, last, last episode of Futurama …until the next last one!' So hopefully the fans will rally together again. Hey, it worked for Jericho!"
...
As for whether she was surprised to hear they would be returning to do more Futurama at all, Tom replied, "Completely! I think we were down for what, two, three years, so it was really just a blast from the past. But I'm so happy, because it's an incredible group of people. We have so much fun!"

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An alledged poster for the new movie may be found here.

For some reason the image wouldn't post.

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Let's try this again...

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that's the cover of the mini-comic and not a poster/promo for the upcoming movie!
 http://www.peelified.com/cgi-bin/Futurama/15-000843-1/#t0

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Originally posted by Homies:
that's the cover of the mini-comic and not a poster/promo for the upcoming movie!
 http://www.peelified.com/cgi-bin/Futurama/15-000843-1/#t0

Thanks for the correction.

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Here's the entire rundown of Futurama-related Comic-Con events. I had posted this in the Speculation thread on July 9th...

 

I went to the Comic-Con 2007 website to see when and who would be on the Futurama panel. It said it will be on Saturday, July 28th. Here's a short summary:

 

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’s Big Score! in glorious wide-screen format! Moderated by Bill Morrison. Ballroom 20

Also, here's some other Futurama related things going on at Comic-Con:

 

Thursday July 26th:
2:00-3:00 Bongo Comics Sneak Peek—Bongo Comics offers a mouth-watering preview of upcoming projects featuring The Simpsons and Futurama. Managing editor Terry Delegeane and creative director Bill Morrison host a panel featuring the writers and artists who create the comics and books based on Matt Groening’s phenomenal TV shows. Find out what’s in the future for Futurama Comics and what to expect in Simpsons Comics and Simpsons Super Spectacular. Plus, Thomas Lennon (Reno 911), Tone Rodriguez (Violent Messiahs), and Gerry Duggan (The Last Christmas) will be on hand to talk about their terrifying contributions to this fall’s star-studded issue of Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror! This is a ”must-attend” panel for all fans of The Simpsons and Futurama—and anyone looking for a place to sit down! Room 3

Saturday July 28th:
10:30-12:00 Animation Writers Caucus: Holy Bleep, Batman! or Censorship and Animation—What can't you say in a cartoon? What can't you show? Why? Who says? Writers and producers of daytime and primetime animated television series tell tales out of school about what they didn't get to do and what they got away, in a panel sponsored by the Writers Guild of America's Animation Writers Caucus. Featuring panelists Alan Burnett (Batman), Aaron Ehasz (Avatar), Eric Kaplan (The Drinky Crow Show), Craig Miller (Curious George), Andrew Nichols (Jimmy Neutron, Will & Dewitt), and Patric Verrone (Futurama). Room 8

10:45-12:00 The Simpsons–Having just aired its 400th episode, The Simpsons has now released its first feature film. Join members of the team responsible for both and find out how they did it, including Matt Groening (creator and executive producer), Al Jean (executive producer/head writer), David Mirkin (former executive producer), Matt Selman (executive producer), Michael Price (co-executive producer), David Silverman (director of The Simpsons Movie), Matt Warburton (supervising producer), Don Payne (consulting producer), and Yeardley Smith (voice of Lisa Simpson). Moderated by Bill Morrison. Hall H

That's all the Futurama related things at Comic-Con's schedule that I found. Sounds like a very interesting weekend for Futurama fans.

So there's all that's going on in San Diego this weekend that you should pay attention to. It's definitely cool that we have a lot on our plate for this year's Comic-Con. If you can't get to San Diego, G4 covering Comic-Con starting at 7pm EDT Thursday and Friday, and there's always YouTube!


Also, where've you been lately, Spy? If you want some more up-to-date Futurama news, we usually break them in this and the Speculation thread a week or two before CGEF posts it.

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I'm posting this here, rather than in the speculation thread, because this comes straight from the "free" Bongo comic handed out at Comic-Con.  I'm not entirely sure whether Bongo was serious when they drew these panels or not, but just in case they were, I've transcribed them:

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[As they are "rerunning" on Cartoon Network, Fry, Leela, and Bender (and the rest of the cast) are forced to relive all 72 episodes over and over and over and over again.  Here they find themselves stuck before the Gypsy in "The Honking."]

Bender: For the 93rd time, why am I turning into a were-car?
Leela: (Pounds on the gypsy's booth) I'm sick of this!  Can't you tell us something about our future?
Gypsy: Sure.  I'd like a change of pace, too.  I see four adventures...

[Cut to a hallway; Bender is handing a wrinkled, crowned alien what appears to be a variation of the Mona Lisa.  Fry and Leela stand in the background, Leela looking shocked, Fry looking... like Fry.  Fry is in a tux and Leela is in a wedding dress. ( O_o )]

Gypsy: (OS) In the first, an alien controls Bender with cosmic repercussions.
Fry: (OS, smiling) Is that a wedding dress?

[Cut to what seems to be a church alter.  Fry is draped in pope-like garments, with a long thin tentacle protruding off his neck, attahced to some unseen monster.  He looks dazed, almost like he's under the influence of a brain slug, and is suspended via the tentacle above Leela and Bender (the latter wearing a "luxurious ascot" ), both who look frightened and shocked.]

Gypsy: (OS) In the second, an alien controls Fry with cosmic repercussions.
Bender: (OS) Why am I wearing that luxurious ascot?

[Cut to a medeivel/fantasy setting, in front of a tent and what may be a castle.  Farnsworth is dressed as a wizard with a long staff (ala Gandalf?), Fry is hunchbacked and wearing tattered clothes, and Leela is a centaur whose arrow is aimed at Bender, who is in the foreground, dressed as a knight, and fleeing from the other three.]

Leela: (OS) Let me guess.  In the third, an alien controls me with cosmic repercussions?
Gypsy: (OS) No, not exactly....

[Cut back to the "present" time.]

Fry: What about the fourth?
Gypsy: Even I, with my powers of robo-foresight, cannot see the plot of at adventure as of press time.

So there you have it; Bongo's interpretation of the next four movies.

I've already posted this in the speculation thread, and I didn't want to put it here until I got a better look at the ad itself, but I guess since it's official information it belongs here after all.  I saw (but did not hear, sadly) this playing over the Fox booth at Comic-Con earlier tonight:

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* Some guy surfing along the skyline on a hoverboard, and getting sucked backwards by... I'm not sure what. I was too far away to see properly.
* Zoidberg floating in the universe, eating random planets ala PacMan
* Hermes getting beheaded (later someone was putting his head into a jar)
* A lot of naked Fry. One scene showed him sitting in a chair next to Bender; most of the others were of him lying butt up in Farnsworth's lab on a table, with his pants off.
* Talking Lord Nibbler, in a varity of different shots, but most shocking of all was that he was talking to various Planet Express members (the final clip of the commercial showed him asking Fry a question; Fry gave some answer and he screamed to the high heavens in agony :P ).
* Nibbler crashing is tiny space ship inside the Planet Express building (he tried to fly out the window and simply ran into it, I think)
* Leela standing in front of a bunch of fans, her hair waiving before them

If I manage to see it up close, I'll try to write a better description for you guys.  These were fully colored and animated clips, not animatics, so I believe most of them (if not all of them) will be in the final movie.

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Sounds like "the what would happen if..." shows but if each short is a movie.

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That was my first thought as well; hence my confusion as to their accuracy....

I saw this hanging up as a giant banner inside the Fox booth, so I'm going to assume it's ok to post here:


It seems to be the official advertisement poster for Bender's Big Score.

(Sorry for the shiny edge; the comic's glossy and my scanner did its best.)

ETA: If you guys are having trouble seeing the large version of the picture, I've uploaded it to TinyPic here.  It's a big image, hence the linkage.

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From Billy West's message board:

No Adam Carolla Show for tomorrow   

Hey,

I would be going in but I have to go down to Comicon in San Diego.
but I'll be in next Thurs. I believe.Saturday around 2:00 pm there will be the
Futurama panel ----The DVD's are coming out sooner than expected.

Billy

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Good news, everyone!

 

Originally on ]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i515bf6e54d29305d864c3f1a3c77a3ff:[/url]

"Futurama" is coming back. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is expected to announce at Comic-Con International the first original "Futurama" productions since the animated show went off the air in 2003.

"Futurama: Bender's Big Score" will be released Nov. 27 directly to DVD. It's the first full-length "Futurama" feature based on the TV series; three more films will be released individually through 2008, all with the original creative team and voice cast on board.

The plot centers on the "Futurama" crew fighting to save Earth in an epic battle against nudist alien Internet scammers. Bender the robot soon comes under the alien's spell and is sent back in time to loot the Earth of its greatest treasures; at one point he runs into Al Gore, who guest stars as himself, during the 2000 presidential recount. Other guest stars include Coolio and Sarah Silverman.

"Futurama" is the second Fox TV series to spawn a made-for-DVD program. Two years ago Fox's home entertainment unit released a direct-to-video feature based on the "Family Guy" series, "Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story."

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So, half the crap I wrote last night about that ad I saw at Comic-Con turned out to be wrong and or incomplete.

I actually took notes today, so hopefully this rendition is more accurate, especially since I was actually able to hear some of it:

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This is a horribly, horribly loose transcript of what I remember.  Apologies for any inaccuracies in advanced.

The clip opens in the Planet Express building.  The camera pans over several shocked PE crew members as the narrator (who I'm 99% sure is Billy West playing Zapp) explains that a horribly tragedy has occurred.

Fry: We're being cancelled?

CUT TO the Box Network Exterior.  Several parts of the letter "B" flash on and off on the illuminated sign, allowing the word to occasionally spell the actual network's name.  Farnsworth explains off-screen that the Box Network executives have knocked Planet Express off of their "network delivery schedule."  CUT TO the Interior of the executives' office.  All of them are smiling stupidly, and one of them giggles as he punches himself in the face.

CUT TO Planet Express.  Farnsworth gets an encouraging phone call and relates it to the crew ("Good news, everyone!" ): the Box executives have been found incompetent and were fired.  (The crew cheers.) They were also beaten.  Badly.   Bender pumps his fist into the air and shouts "Guess who's back, baby!"

CUT TO space (I think the Milky Way Galaxy, as I thought I saw Earth and Sol).  Amy flies around on her hoverboard.  She playfully shoots at something beyond the camera, but basic physics sends her flying off her board, backwards and out of sight.  Zoidberg's humongous head appears and immediately chomps on the nearest planet (before I said he was eating them ala PacMan, but that's not what happens after all).

CUT TO Planet Express.  Zoidberg is dancing next to a holographic protection of what appears to be the same galaxy he was feasting on.

CUT TO [Unknown]: Hermes, in naught but his boxers, is leaning with one hand against a wall.  A knife comes flying out of nowhere and slices through him; his head pops off and screams a few seconds after the decapitation, once his brain has caught up with the event.

CUT TO a nudist beach (?): Fry and Bender (who are cleverly positioned to block the naughty bits of visitors in the background) are sitting in chairs next to each other.

Bender: You know what's funny?
Fry: What?
Bender: Your wanger.  Ahahahahaha!
Fry: *scowl*

--from this point on I'm not sure of the order of these scenes; it all kind of jumbled together in my head--

CUT TO [Unknown]: Zoidberg is standing with a bucked of red "paste" and Hermes' head in a jar.  He scrapes some paste onto spatula, casually smashes Hermes' jar (as Hermes freaks out inside), spread the paste over the base of his neck, and slams the head onto his lifeless body.  He twists and turns the head in a seemingly futile attempt to center it.

CUT TO [Unknown]: Bender, wearing sunglasses, holds a large, thick laser gun and aims it straight at Fry's chest.  He tells him "asta la vista" as the gun cocks.

CUT TO [Unknown]: Leela asks some unseen entity: "But what about our fans?"  There is a beat, and the camera pulls back to reveal her standing before a dozen fans, all running at full power.

CUT TO [Unknown] City Street: Bender flies down the street in a small spacecraft, tailed by a handful of small spaceships who are firing at him.

CUT TO Farnsworth's Lab: Several aliens (the nudist aliens mentioned before, I assume) have gathered with the PE crew to observe Fry, who is lying front-down on a table with his pants off and a microscope aiming at his butt.  The microscope (?) has projected an image of a giant green orb.  Someone refers to it as the "Time Sphere;" Farnsworth explains it can act as a time warp; Leela questions why said sphere is located on Fry's ass (note that from what I could see, the sphere was not visible to the "naked eye" ).

CUT TO Lab; different time: Nibbler, still dresses as Leela's pet, calls for backup.  Several tiny spaceships crash into the room; one of the nudist aliens grabs a folded chair and smacks one of the ships.  Ken (the male Nibblonian voiced by Billy) screams "Mayday, mayday!" as his ship is sent careening into the wall.  He ejects before the vehicle crashes and explodes, and floats safely to the floor thanks to his purple, cat-themed parachute.

CUT TO A Ruined Street: Bender, wearing his shades and carrying the laser, takes aim at the window of what seems to be an abandoned building.  "Hey Fry, remember me?!" He shouts before he fires.
(Note: I had a suspicious feeling Bender was in ONY, as the buildings didn't look very futuristic at all.  In fact, if I didn't know any better, I could have sworn the 2012 version of Panuccis was right across the street.  Maybe I was just seeing things, though.)

CUT TO Farnsworth's Lab: Nibbler laments that they are doomed, doomed!  Fry asks if he can put his pants back on, but Nibbler ignores him to scream one final "Dooooooomed" at the ceiling.

Zapp's voice cuts in as the title screen flashes: "Futurama!  Coming to DVD any second now!"  The clip ends with Bender wearing an Egyptian mask; he removes it, but his eyes look strange (his pupils have become square spirals).

The FINAL scene shows 5 seconds of the HypnoToad, and Zapp slowly and steadily chants "buy it buy it buy it buy it, etc."

Bongo didn't have much news concerning the movies that we didn't already know, but they said Saturday's panel would feature an event of the sort that has never been done in Comic-Con before.  I thought they might have been referring to the table read, but I can't believe no one's done a table read at Comic-Con before....

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Gawd, that G4 booth....  Whoever thought that was a good idea to stick that right next to one of the main entrances needs to have some sense smacked into them.  That booth's caused nothing but backlog every time I run into it.

And you're all welcome.    Futurama was the main reason I wanted to attend this year, and after reading recounts of past conventions that I had to miss on CGEF, I feel it's only fair to share as much as I can with the site now.

Re: Futurama Booth...  If any booth can claim that name, it's the Bongo booth.  The Fox booth has one poster and runs that ad once an hour or so, and that's really it for Futurama.  Bongo has all of the comics sprawled on their tables,posters and calendars up for display, and one side of their booth has a nifty picture of Fry, Leela, and Bender painted on it (the other side belongs to OFF). They even have a TV installed; every time I pop by, there're little kids sitting on the rug watching old Simpson episodes.  I'm hoping now that the movie's premiered they'll start adding Futurama to the lineup.

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[Fry]One ... JILLION ... Nixorbucks[/Fry]

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I saw the calendars at Bongo's booth, too.  I might pick one up on Sunday if they have any left; I'd forgotten how hard those are to find....

Nothing new to report today about the movies, I'm afraid.  One of the artists (at least I think it was one of the artists...) said that the table read at tomorrow's panel will be taken from the free comic, rather than the movie script; as Bill Morrison is moderating that panel, I trust their word.  Fox was handing out temporary Bender tatoos at their booth (as opposed to... nothing).  That's essentially it.    Hopefully I'll have much more to post tomorrow night.

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A short tidbit of info on the new movies: http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=18331

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My dad called. Told me all about the panel. He said it was pretty cool.

It was held in the seond biggest room in the convention center - he said that there most have been about 5,000 people there. o_o

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 http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/28/comic-con-futurama-panel-report/

There isn't much in this report on the panel, though apparently they only did a table reading of the free comic, and no trailer.   

The picture is somewhat of interest- it's the first one to include Fry and Leela with Bender. There's speech bubbles, but the image is way too blurry to read. However, if you look carefully in the poster, Leela is indeed wearing some pair of sunglasses.

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That image Frida posted is one of the first pages of the comic they read from.  The speech bubbles say:

Narrator: Four years ago today, an intriguing question was posed...
Bender: Guess who's back, baby?!
Narrator: An innocent question met with an innocent answer....

(The "innocent answer" is simply "SILENCE;" the crew returns to an empty Planet Express hanger after their big "network" delivery.)

As for the orchestra, I think someone (Cohen?) said they were simply replacing it with a synthesizer, and insisted it would sound nearly identical to the score we're used to.  Also, the writers evidentally had to take a pay cut (it was the other major "fund loss" that was mentioned).

ETA: Chris Tyng was confirmed as being back on staff, so I don't think we'll have to worry about "recycled music."

The Q'n'A session was short-lived, sadly, because the answers to the few questions asked were very, very long.  They were entertaining answers, and I enjoyed them, but... I must have been 6th or 7th in line initially, the guy ahead of me was actually at the microphone, and they suddenly announced that the panel was over.  So, I never got my question in.       

Not all was a total loss, though.  David Cohen was kind enough to sign my free Bongo comic before we were all chased out of the room.       

The table read was awesome, and the clip (which was an extended version of the ad I kept seeing at Fox's booth) was hilarious and a bit more enlightening.  I'll try to type up what I remember from it later tonight.

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I don't think he gets many autograph requests...

He would have gotten mine if they'd actually had a chance to stick around after the panel.  I think the only reason I got one from DXC was because he had to borrow my pen. =P  That, and he's really nice in person.

I'd love it if you could add your thoughts to these spoilers: I'm missing pieces of jokes and quotes that my notes didn't fill, and I know I accidentally ignored some stuff as I was writing other things down.

Speaking of which:

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Disclaimer: I'm not going to pretend this is accurate.  I guessed on a lot of the words and scene actions others I simply couldn't fill in myself, so these are not exact passages.  This is as close as I could get them to the actual dialogue.

(David X Cohen introduces the clip as a “supersized, five minute trailer,” insisting it was completed not 36 hours ago and that this is its world premiere.)

CUT TO Planet Express; the camera pans over the PE Crew as the narrator speaks….

ZAPP (OS): [Futurama?] began with the greatest tragedy in television history.
FRY: We were cancelled?
ZAPP (OS): [unknown; too much cheering]

The clip shows the BOX NETWORK exterior, with the broken sign.  CUT TO the interior; two of the executives are giggling insanely.  The third laughs as he hits himself in the face.

CUT TO Planet Express

Farnsworth picks up the phone.

FARNSWORTH: Mmmyes?  I see!  (he hangs up; a beat) Good news everyone!  Those asinine morons who cancelled us were themselves fired for incompetence! (the PE crew cheers) Not just fired, but beaten up too!  (more cheering)  In fact, most of them died from their injuries.  (Most of the crew cheers uneasily; Bender cheers with gusto as before)  And then they were ground up into a fine, pink powder. (the crew cheers)

BENDER: (pumping his fist) We’re back, baby!

CUT TO Title Screen

The trademark blue intro screen, complete with flying PE ship and show title, appears on the screen.

ZAPP: [Unknown] is proud to present: Futurama!  In an all new, feature length adventure!

CUT TO Random Universe

Amy is flying through space on her hover board.  She’s holding a martini, not a gun.  She giggled and yells something about her martini before it spills in one direction, and she falls off her board in the other, causing her to float away and off-screen.  Zoidberg’s head pops up and begins eating the planets. 

CUT TO Planet Express

Zoidberg is dancing before a hologram of the same galaxy.  It is being projected from a record player (or a turn table?), which Scruffy is standing at.  Scruffy is scratching the record as though he were a DJ.

CUT TO Unknown

Hermes gets his head sliced off by a mysterious flying knife as he leans with one arm against a wall.  His disembodied head screams.

TERRY (OS): Welcome to the world of tomorrow!

CUT TO Planet Express

The crew is standing before the professor.

FARNSWORTH: We’ve got a delivery to the nude beach planet!

The crew cheers.

CUT TO Nude Beach Planet

The camera simply focuses on various crew members removing their clothes, including Leela and Amy.  The camera cuts to Zoidberg, who wriggles out of his shell to reveal his all-too familiar flabby body, much to the disgust of every person in that ballroom.

CUT TO Nude Beach Planet (new scene)

Fry and Bender are in neighboring beach chairs.
BENDER: You know, it’s funny.
FRY: What?
BENDER: Your wiener!  (he laughs loudly as Fry scowls)

CUT TO Farnsworth’s Lab

The PE crew and nudist aliens are standing around Fry, who is lying on the table with his butt exposed to a microscope.  Said microscope is projecting a huge image of…

NUDAR(?): *gasp* The Time Sphere!
LEELA: What’s the secret of time travel doing on Fry’s ass?
FRY: It was bound to be somewhere.

CUT TO Farnsworth’s Lab (“later” scene)

Bender is blurting out a string of binary code (he’s talking too fast for me to catch the sequence of digits).  Nibbler looks unnerved.

NIBBLER: Nibblonians, ATTACK!

Several ships crash in through the window and begin flying about the room, much to the shock of the crew.  One of the nudist aliens takes a folding chair and swings it at one of the ships.

KEN(?): Mayday, mayday! 

The pilot ejects himself before his ship crashes into the wall.  He floats to safety via his purple parachute, shaped like a cat’s head (perky ears included).  It gently floats on top of him once he lands.

CUT TO Zoidberg’s Office (?)

Hermes’ decapitated head in a jar is yelling at Zoidberg as he mixes “paste.”

HERMES: Come on, mon!
ZOIDBERG: Hermes, please!  You can’t hurry a delicate operation like this.
Zoidberg suddenly swings his claw into Hermes’ jar and breaks it open.  He takes the screaming Hermes in one claw and smears paste onto the neck of his body with the other.  He forces the head onto the body (twisting it in for good measure).  Hermes breathes in relief, then looks down.

HERMES: What are those?

The camera zooms out to reveal that Zoidberg has put Hermes’ head on backwards; “those” would be his buttocks.

HERMES: You filthy crab!
ZOIDBERG: I thought you were happy!  Your tail is wagging.

Hermes simply glares death at Zoidberg.

CUT TO An Igloo

Leela, Zoidberg, LaBarbara, Dwight, and a few other characters I can’t remember are huddled in the center of this igloo… ice cave… thing.  Zoidberg(?) says something that I never caught because everyone was laughing so hard at the last joke.

LEELA: If you want to worry about something, worry about the Yetis.
ZOIDBERG: Yetis?

Several giant yetis crash through the wall.  Everyone screams.

CUT TO The Cryogenics Tube Room at Applied Cryogenics, circa 2000

Fry wanders the dark, empty room.  You can see his past self still residing in the leftmost cryogenics tube.

FRY (oddly enough, elated): Hello 2000.  I’m home!

CUT TO Same Room, Daylight

Bender is standing in the center of the room.  Another Bender “warps” into the room.  Both are holding lasers and have strange, spiral pupils (or they’re both wearing sunglasses; one of the two).

BENDER 1: Hello there.  I’m you from 10 seconds into the future. Um, stay here and wait for Fry while I go to the bathroom.

He heads towards the door.

BENDER 2: Ok, boss! (SOTTO) After I kill Fry you’ll go next.
BENDER 1: What?
BENDER 2: Nothing.

CUT TO November 2000: Ballot Place

Al Gore and several other people are apparently counting ballots.

GORE: Here’s to four years of clean air, clean(?) government, and amazing new technology such as….

Bender forces the door open, yielding his laser gun.

PERSON: Robot!

Bender fires at the people, but misses and hits a box full of ballots for Gore.  The box explodes and the ballots are destroyed.  The camera cuts to a newspaper revealing that Bush has now won the election.

CUT TO A Church.

Leela and Farnsworth are at the back of the church; Leela in a wedding dress and Farnsworth in his best rendition of a tuxedo.  Farnsworth is walking her down the aisle, as her parents watch from below through some sort of grate.

MUNDA: Our little girl is finally getting married, and to a normal, two-eyed human!
MORRIS: Eh, he’s not good enough for her.  Leela deserves a guy with a dozen eyes.
MUNDA: Quit trying to fix her up with Fly Mutant already!

The camera pans over to reveal a mutant with a giant fly head.  He buzzes in response to Munda.

CUT TO Unknown

Bender enters the frame, his arms full of some treasure.  He approaches the nudist aliens.

BENDER: Here’s the [something I didn’t catch; I’m sorry], masters!  One’s a total secret recipe!
NUDAR(?): Well, we now have every valuable object in human history.

He takes Bender’s gift and tosses it into a giant pile of treasure and historic relics behind him.  Fry happens to be amongst the treasure, and is hit with the item square in the face.  The nudist aliens cackle evilly. 

CUT TO Snowy Street

Tinny Tim and several other crew members are outside.

TINNY: XMas Eve: the most night of the (there is a loud noise) ooh! 

Robot Santa emerges from the sky.

SANTA: [unintelligible] Planet Express crew has [unintelligible] added to my list.  You’ve all been very naughty.

He fires openly and laughs.

CUT TO The Nimbus; Outer Space

Zapp stands in his ship; through the window you can see other ships floating next to the Nimbus.

ZAPP: Commanders, stand by.  Prepare to transfer power(?) control to the main stupid(?) computer on my mark.

CUT TO Outer Space

The Nimbus and the fleet of ships (which looks like ships that were simply recruited on the spot, much like they were from “When Aliens Attack”) fly about, attacking dozens of large objects that look like golden, jewel-encrusted Death Stars.

CUT TO Interior of Golden Death Star Thingy (?)

RANDOM NUDIST ALIEN: Nice attack, doodoo heads!

CUT TO Old New York, circa 21st Century

Bender, wearing sunglasses and wielding his laser, is standing outside the decaying front of Panucci’s Pizza (it looks like it did at the end of Jurassic Bark, missing letters and all).

BENDER: Hey Fry ol’ buddy!  It’s me, Bender!

He aims at a building across the street and fires into one of the upper story windows.

CUT TO Unknown

Leela is standing before a dozen house fans.

LEELA: But what does it mean for us and our many fans?

CUT TO Shot of Poster Image (?)

ZAPP (OS): Bender’s Big Score: Available on DVD November 27th!

CUT TO Unknown

Bender is wearing an Egyptian mask and laughing evilly.

BENDER: Nah, I’m just kidding. (he removes the mask to reveal his spiral pupils)  It’s me, Bender.

CUT TO Farnsworth’s Lab

NIBBLER: The universe is doomed, doomed!
FRY: Can I pull up my pants now?
NIBBLER: Doooooooommmmmeeeed!!

CUT TO Whiteness

The screen shows nothing but the Hypnotoad.

ZAPP (OS): Buy it.  Buy it.  Buy it.  Buy it.  (and so forth)

(Note: At one point, I DO remember Bender going to Egypt (circa 1300s BC?) and seeing some slaves, but I have no idea where that scene showed up in the trailer.)

Also of note (this just comes from the panel in general):

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* DXC called the new alien species "nudist internet scammers"
* The "time sphere" is either related to or is in actuality a tatoo on Fry's butt.  And it is visible to the naked eye from the right angle, at least in some scenes.

* According to DXC: all of the writers on staff are veterans to the show, the entire voice cast is back, and Christopher Tyng is still composing the music.
* Ken Keeler wrote half of the 16 episodes, including the final episode of this "season"/movie series.
* Writers Eric Kaplan and Patric Verrone also appeared on the panel, which makes me wonder if they're also working on the movie (although Verrone may have only been there because he wrote the mini comic).
* Someone questioned the potential for more seasons after these 16 episodes, and the answer was, essentially, "if you want it, let the networks know!"  I'm still kind of confused as to whether we're supposed to aim this want at Comedy Central or Fox....
* The movie is in widescreen and high def format.     


ETA: And you're all very welcome.  It was my pleasure to be able to do this for you guys.   

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According to: http://tv.ign.com/articles/808/808965p1.html

"The crew is working on 60 new episodes of Futurama, which will be done in widescreen."

I assume that that 60 should read 16, but maybe not...

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 60 is too big of a gamble. The show is on a new network and I'm sure Comedy Central knows that it might not be as popular their.

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Not to mention that it'd be a bit weird for them to be working on 60 new episodes at the same time.

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It's gratifying to know that, in the Futurama universe, Gail Berman was fatally beaten.

And a million thankses to 1BDI!

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Originally posted by Frida Waterfall:
The picture is somewhat of interest- it's the first one to include Fry and Leela with Bender. There's speech bubbles, but the image is way too blurry to read. However, if you look carefully in the poster, Leela is indeed wearing some pair of sunglasses.

You mean she's wearing a sunglass. 

As for this 60 episodes thing, I think it was probably just someone mis-hearing the number 16.  If you don't articulate it, or if you say it fast, "16" can sound like "60."

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Originally posted by Officer 1BD1:
I'm missing pieces of jokes and quotes that my notes didn't fill, and I know I accidentally ignored some stuff as I was writing other things down.

You did an amazing job!  There are only a few things I would add regarding the trailer.  My audio recording is very, very bad but allows some checking.  (The ComicCon hosts said not to made video recordings, said nothing about audio).

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**To avoid countless quoting I'll put my comments in asterisks (**) near yours.

Bender is blurting out a string of binary code **001100...**. 


Leela, Zoidberg, LaBarbara, Dwight, and a few other characters I can’t remember are huddled in the center of this **ice cave**.  Zoidberg(?) says something that I never caught because everyone was laughing so hard at the last joke.  **He was hungry?**


CUT TO The Cryogenics Tube Room at Applied Cryogenics, circa 2000

Fry wanders the dark, empty room.  You can see his past self still residing in the leftmost cryogenics tube.

FRY (oddly enough, elated): Hello 2000.  I’m home!

**I agree, he is really happy to be back in time.  Also, his pants are still down, showing the tattoo on his butt.  There is going to be a lot of butt in this movie...**

Bender fires at the people, but misses and hits a box full of ballots for Gore.  The box explodes and the ballots are destroyed.  The camera cuts to a newspaper revealing that Bush has now won the election.
** Subheadline: "Insane robot still on rampage"**

MUNDA: Our little girl is finally getting married, and to a normal, two-eyed human!
MORRIS: Eh, he’s not good enough for her.  Leela deserves a guy with a dozen eyes.
MUNDA: Quit trying to fix her up with Fly Mutant already!

**As has been pointed out, no sign that it is Fry that she would be marrying.**

BENDER: Here’s the **Guttenberg Bible**, masters!  **And I also have the secret recipie**!

**Written on the page are the words 'Chiken, grease, and fat'--this is a joke on the U.S. fast food franchise Kentucky Fried Chicken**

Tinny Tim and several other crew members are outside.

TINNY: XMas Eve: the most **wonderful **night of the (there is a loud noise) ooh! 

**Bender knocks out Tim's leg**

Robot Santa emerges from the sky.

SANTA: [unintelligible] Planet Express crew has [unintelligible] added to my list.  You’ve all been very naughty.

**Bender, bored, looks at Leela and uses his hands to mimic Santa talking**.

ZAPP: Commanders, stand by.  Prepare to transfer **pest**(?) control to the main stupid(?) computer on my mark.

CUT TO Old New York, circa 21st Century

Bender, wearing sunglasses and wielding his laser, is standing outside the decaying front of Panucci’s Pizza (it looks like it did at the end of Jurassic Bark, missing letters and all).  **Perhaps even slightly worse.  I have a sense that Fry is going to learn how Jurassic Bark really ended**


(Note: At one point, I DO remember Bender going to Egypt (circa 1300s BC?) and seeing some slaves, but I have no idea where that scene showed up in the trailer.)

**Yes, toward the end a quick scene where Bender appears next to a pyramaid and yells "drop the sacrophagus" to a group of slaves carrying an enormous--well--sacrophagus.  They drop it on the ground...**

**It was mentioned by David Cohen during the panel that it was a tatoo on Fry's butt that was a key plot point.**

Other impressions from the panel:
    -David Cohen and the writers seem as uncertain as anyone else how the movies will be converted into episodes.  Ken Keeler said that normally a movie has three acts (setup, conflict, resolution?) and a TV episode has three parts for two commercial breaks, leading to a 12 part structure, which meant that things would have to be rearranged around.  But the key was to write them first as movies.  Finally, he stopped and simply concluded, "It wasn't easy".  That got some laughs.

-Was it just me, or was David X Cohen really nervous before running the extended clip (finished just 36 hours earlier)?  The entire panel seemed to loosen up as time went on.

-All the producers and writers were really anxious to state that the lower budget would not affect what is on screen.  The cuts were in the live orchestra (damn) and writers salaries (not sure it the latter was a joke).  Since Patrick Verrone is on the board of directors of the Writers Guild, David joked that "because of Patrick we weren't able to use a synthesizer to replace the writers."
Personally, I thought the animation was smoother and richer than in the TV episodes.  Also, they emphasized that Chris Tyung(sp) had composed original music.

-The seating capacity of Ballroom 20 was 4200, and it seemed to be pretty full for Futurama, but it was also full for the previous two panels on Heroes and Battlestar Galactica.

-They kept running out of the promotional comic at the Bongo booth, but had copies of the 2007 and 2008 calendars for sale.

-The table read was fun.  Apparently this was the first time Katey Sagal had tried to speak a voice other than Leela's (as a Box executive).  Her fellow actors seemed really delighted that she did so and that she was there at all--Billy West started dancing on the stage behind the table when she showed up. 

-I'm a little sad that there were no particular questions directed at Katey--this apparently was her first time at a comiccon after all.  But then again, I wasn't too impressed by the quality of most of the questions.  One guy asked a question about the Simpsons movie, which made him really popular in that room, I tell you.  David Cohen replied "I see you're going to get beat up walking out of here."  The actors had a great time with a question on how they created their voices for the characters.  I never knew that Bender was a combination of three different characters.  I personally was impressed at how well Billy West can imitate line hum and mike feedback.

-I never realized that Animaniacs and Married with Children were so popular, based on applause.

-As Officer has stated, Ken Keeler has written the first and last movies, which will be "the second time we end Futurama for the last time," as David Cohen said.

-There are going to be more "dick jokes" and butt shots in the movies, as is clear already.

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Haha, I made an audio recording, too.  But I was clapping and laughing so much that most of it was too garbled to make out, and then I turned it off for the Q'n'A because I didn't want to be caught with a recorder while I was in line (even if they never said anything about audio).  Incidentally, I seem to have a very annoying laugh, and an even more annoying fangirl scream. :P

Ah, the Simpson guy.  He was among the questioners I wished had stayed in their seats....

Thanks for adding to the spoilers, JustNibblin'  To be honest, I didn't notice if DXC was nervous in the beginning or not.  I think my head was buried in my stupid notebook at the time (because I was so paranoid the audio wouldn't turn out that I was still taking hand-written notes).

     

Originally posted by Chou:
Officer 1BDI, is it possible/okay to share some of your notes with the Toonzone community? I think they'd be happy to hear them as well. I'll make sure to credit you (if you give permission).

I can't speak for JustNibblin,' but you guys are more than welcome to spread the spoilers that I've posted around (credit is nice, of course        ).

There was not much going on relevant to the movie today.  I was only at Comic-Con for a few hours, because I only wanted to see one panel that happened to feature Maurice LaMarche and Tom Kenny (and half a dozen other VAs).  Watch for it on YouTube, because it's hilarious; LaMarche even got us to rally for Frank Welker's appearance at next year's convention. :3

Before the panel, I hit Bongo's booth and saw Matt Groening there.  He was signing more posters for the booth to sell, and eventually signed merchandise that estatic fans had bought at the booth that morning.  I already had a signed poster from him, so I skipped that.  After the panel I went to the Nickelodeon booth (which is, oddly enough, right next to the Bongo booth) and had Tom Kenny sign my Futurama comic, when he told me he wasn't in any of the coming movies.

Now, that might not seem newsworthy to some, but that had me raising an eyebrow:

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I mean, after hearing that Seymour is going to appear, and that Sarah "Michelle" Silverman is making a guest appearance, I was fully expecting to see Yancy in that movie somewhere.  The LotF fan in me is very disappointed.

He went on to say that most of the cast can do hundreds of voices anyway, which was why he wasn't needed.  I didn't want to press him on it, but I wasn't sure if he was implying other VAs were going to voice his preexisting characters or if he simply wasn't hired to voice any new/minor characters because of the already great vocal variety.  If it's the former, I admit I'm going to be a little ticked off, but I guess I should be happy that every other VA came back.

(EDIT 8-15-07: My original post was lost in the thread pruning, but I just wanted to throw in that [-mArc-]/DXC confirmed the exact opposite of this a few days after I posted this, and that I have no idea what's really going on regarding Kenny and his involvement (or lack thereof) in the movies.  I believe what he told me, but I don’t doubt DXC’s word, either, so maybe something drastic changed between that Sunday and whenever that news was uploaded.)

ETA: When JustNibblin' says the room was full, it was seriously full.  I got in line for the Battlestar Galactica panel so I could get a seat for the Futurama panel, and there were several times when I was standing in line that I seriously thought I would not get in for the Futurama panel (convention center workers even kept popping up at our end of hte line to tell us "only 20 people have left the ballroom; this line hasn't moved for x hours; you're not going to get in."  I think I finally got in 15 minutes into the BSG panel (thank God), so the workers were obviously... not giving us the full story, at any rate.     

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I believe Katey was doing a second voice just for the table read.  No sign she will be doing a second voice in the series.

Forward the info wherever you want, Chou. 

I suspect the comic book will float onto the Internet, and the trailer should surface shortly (it *is* a promotional trailer, after all).

One other little story about the line to get in.  People had been waiting 3 hours at the front to get in the Galactia panel, but I decided to give it 30 minutes.  Two guys in front me were starting to complain "Why are all these people going to see  Futurama?"  The other guy said "Dunno.  Futurama is always a lot more popular at ComicCon than the Simpsons for some reason."

I mentioned to them that Futurama was coming back from cancellation so there may be some resurging interest.  "Damn, we're never going to get in."  Then they left.  And then the line started to move.  Sacrifice is noble and good.  Especially if others do the self-sacrificing.

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You are more than welcome to translate/use/post my transcript, Badwolf. 

I've been hunting around YouTube for video footage, but I haven't found anything beyond clips for the new Avatar season.  I'm hoping people are just waiting until they get back home to upload any footage they took....

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Thank you.   
It's on my site now. (Why is everyone visiting it? It's in hungarian, not useful at all  )

Yeah, me too, but I keep hoping, I wanna see it so badly   

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I found the comic con   trailer!!!  It's only the first few seconds, but still...  New Futurama!

[Reply #37 on:]

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCCjrVsP18I

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAX8c4fTgcU

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YdBWapN9nI