David X. Cohen of Futurama Talks About the Movie

Joel Keller writes "I conducted a brief interview with David X. Cohen, EP and show-runner for Futurama, about the release of the new DVD, "Futurama: Bender's Big Score," as well as the return of his show to TV. The interview was posted to TV Squad this morning. In it, Cohen talks about how the movies will be split up into episodes, some of the inside references that they inserted for the die-hards, and a quick preview of what the second Futurama movie is going to be about."

Comments

His show?

[Anonymous Coward]

...return of his show to TV...

Didn't some guy named Matt Groening have something to do with it?

Re:His show?

[Xiaran]

If you listen to the DVD commentaries(yes I am a futurama fan... one of those that DXC thanks in TFA... no problem Dave) I get the distinct impression you are correct. Cohen seems to be the head day to day management of the show guy and Groening comes in time to time with advice and suggestions... Greoning seems to be the one that deals with the boneheads at Fox(prolly cause he has the showbiz clout)

My favorite part

[Brazilian Geek]

I loved the movie and I loved the nods and goodies they gave the fans such as Seymour.

My favorite part was during the opening graphics - the "old" cartoon showing before the Planet Express ship crashes into the billboard. I had to stop the movie and jerk back a few tears, it was the most intense feeling of nostalgia I've felt in a very long time.

Mars University Challenge

[itsdapead]

Speaking of Futurama, a week or two back, the BBC's intellectual quiz show "University Challenge" had a whole round (3 questions) on "Science References in Futurama"!

If I remember the questions were along the lines of:

1. Which quantum physicist was referred to via a parody of Schroedinger's Cat
2. What is Bender's serial number, also the smallest number that can be written as the sum of two cubes in two different ways?
3. What was the symbol, representing the the cardinality of the set of all natural numbers, used in the name of the local cinema?

(I.e. the contestants could conceivably have got the answers without knowing the show - more detail was given for q1 than I can remember - although they didn't do too well and Paxo looked a bit bemused).

I think that this confirms the sad truth that "Futurama" must be the most intellectual TV show of recent years (excluding University Challenge).

Re:Mars University Challenge

[RealGrouchy]

I think that this confirms the sad truth that "Futurama" must be the most intellectual TV show of recent years (excluding University Challenge). Why is this a sad thing? Because it is animated instead of with real characters? Because it makes people laugh? Because it has an extremely talented and capable production team? Because it speaks to current events with amusing analogies instead of directly?

Something should not have to be boring to be intellectual.

- RG>

Seen it.

[ErikZ]

Overall they put a lot more work into the quality of the show when you compare it to previous episodes.

The only parts I didn't like were the song and dance routines. They were really poor when compared to the opera piece they did.

They really went nuts with the time travel. Which I liked. Sure it got confusing, but it was cheap and easy TIME TRAVEL. Chaos just comes with it.

I plan on buying the DVD when it comes out to show my support. :)