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

To Mix Memes

[X43B]

I've got a fever....and the only prescription is more Hypnotoad.

Re:To Mix Memes

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll love the DVD then. It has a full 22-minute episode of "Everyone Loves Hypnotoad," complete with commercials and bloopers. :)

Comedy Central?

[morgan_greywolf]

Ick. Comedy Central is famous for getting shows like this and then killing them off quick. MST3K anyone?

Re:Comedy Central?

[AmaDaden]

It's worth noting that both Adult Swim and Comedy Central both put in bids for the new eps of Futurama and Comedy Central won. Since Adult Swim more or less resurrected Futurama by playing it almost every night for the last few years it was kind of a dirty move on CCs part. So if Adult Swim got it the new eps would still happen and would be in, what some would consider, more capable hands. The same exact thing happened with Family Guy but the other guy was Fox and not CC.

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?

[AmaDaden]

I thought that too at first but he seems to stick mostly to the Simpsons. David X. Cohen is the main guy behind Futurama but as I understand it he still has to answer to Groening.

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)

Re:His show?

[joelkeller]

Groening is the creator, but Cohen runs the show. I talked to Groening in January about the show, and, believe me, he's pretty involved with it, as well.

I've seen it

[astrotek]

If you like Futurama you will like this movie. The movie dragged on for about 45 minutes to long because the ending was obvious through the last 60 minutes or so.

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.

Oblig.

[Rob T Firefly]

Good news, everyone!

Re:Oblig.

[truthsearch]

Hey, what kinda party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker.

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:AdultSwim

[chrismcdirty]

I liked the early years of AS up until Sealab, Home Movies, Brak, and Harvey Birdman stopped making new episodes and ATHF got really bad (somewhere around the 3rd or 4th season). The only "new" shows I like are Robot Chicken, Venture Bros., and Lucy, Daughter of the Devil, and I haven't noticed my MythTV recording Lucy recently, so I hope it hasn't been canceled already. Everything else (especially Saul, Tim & Eric, and Xavier) is trash.