David X. Cohen Interview
Can’t Get Enough of Futurama, which looks to be one a pretty exhaustive, in depth Futurama blog, has an interesting interview with producer David X. Cohen. Here’s Cohen on Bender’s Big Score, as well as the other Futurama movies about to come out:
The goal was to maintain the tone of the show while giving the overall presentation a more cinematic feel. For that reason, we went to widescreen for the first time ever, and mixed the audio in 5.1 surround sound. The writing process was largely the same, however — just supersized. All of the writers on this project were veterans of the series, so I think it will feel pretty consistent… at least, no less consistent than when we were on the air. And the animation is beautiful.
Of course, the movie is a different format then the TV episodes:
Going to feature length was definitely a challenge. But there were benefits, too, since in virtually every one of our original episodes, we had trouble cramming the plot into 22 minutes, because we were almost always going for grand, movie-like stories anyway. So on one hand it was a relief to have more room to maneuver; on the other hand, we were in uncharted territory.
I’d wager the producers of The Simpsons Movie probably faced similar challenges.
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