The Simpsons are about to move into the future. The longest-running scripted TV show is moving into its 25th year and it’s getting like Abe Simpson. It’s the elder statesmen of animation and it’s visiting all its relatives just for a chance to get out of the home. It was recently announced that The Simpsons will do a crossover episode with The Family Guy, not they’re shooting the yellow family into the future with a crossover episode on Futurama. Even if The Simpsons do get cancelled, which is threatened periodically, they always got a place to crash.
Comic-Con hosted a packed panel with The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, and its executive producer Al Jean, Mike Anderson, the show’s supervising director, consulting producer David Silverman and Tress MacNeille, who does dozens of voices like Skinner’s mom, the executive producer of Itchy and Scratch, the bully Dolph and others characters.
The Comic-Con panel discussion started with an opening Simpsons sequence specially directed by Guillermo del Toro. It was a virtual "Treehouse of Horrors" with every horror movie character in film history interjected with references to del Toro pictures. The assembled Springfieldians then told the auditorium about the Futurama crossover. The casts will record that as a Simpsons episode next month and it will air either as the Season 25 finale or the Season 26 premiere in the fall of 2013. They also revealed that Kristen Wiig, Zach Galifianakis, Elisabeth Moss, Stan Lee and Harlan Ellison will all do guest voices on The Simpsons.
Groening then promised more crossovers and Jean revealed that there would be sequel to "Holidays of Future Passed" where Homer dies so many times he can only come back as a hologram. And still Maggie won’t talk. She may never talk as she was voiced by Elizabeth Taylor and The Simpsons are very respectful of their voice actors. They also promised a "very musical episode" but when asked, all they did was hum.
Nothing new yet on the Simpsons Moviefront. Groening said the staff is still recovering from the first one. It took them four years to make and they “need a lie down,” as Ricky Gervais would say.
Besides the questions, the panel also hosted some singers who did a medley of songs from the show. They also did crossover hits.
SOURCE: IGN
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