28 seasons and still going, The Simpsons are embarking on television history as the show moves closer towards its 30th season. Even with all their television success, the clamor from many is for a second Simpsons movie and apparently fans are not the only ones who wants to see it.
In an interview with LRM, The Simpsons producer James L. Brooks discussed the possibility of a second Simpsons Movie after the tremendous success of the first one. It seems that even after 600 episodes on the air and numerous awards, executives at the network are really excited for another movie, according to Brooks.
“Fox very much wants us to do another one, and maybe we will and maybe we won’t—that’s where it is,” Brooks explained in the interview. “How do we divide our labors and do we believe in the idea we have? We may go into a more active exploration of a second movie soon.”
The Simpsons Movie premiered in 2007 and grossed over $550 million domestically and internationally. This, all on a budget of $75 million for the making of the film. With a Rotten Tomatoes score of 88, The Simpsons Movie was also a critical success with many stating that it stayed with the arc of the television show and it just felt like regular Simpsons episode just expanded.
The common thinking for most is that The SImpsons would use the 30th season as an ending point for the show. With the show ending, the possibility of putting together a movie without the rigors of a weekly show is plausible. While the show is still chugging along, it is safe to ask whether Brooks and the rest of producers see any endgame to the show.
“Around eight years in—I swear to God this is the truth. It’s an impossible truth to believe, so I say it with that caveat—but the truth is for me, about eight years in, we were going ‘Where are we going to get another story?’ and then we broke through that and never looked back. For some reason, coming up with stories stopped being hard and are not hard for us. I don’t know why. I don’t know how to explain that. I don’t think we’re repeating ourselves.
There’s always Al Jean, who’s our showrunner. He has a massive brain, and he knows everything we’ve done, and he’s always in the room who says, ‘Can’t, we’ve done that,’ and we go on and veer to the right when he says that. It’s just very alive and novel. Just the form itself allows us to do that. We had very rigid rules about what we do at the beginning, and every once in a while, we throw out a rule. All I know is that we’re not ending now—I know that. I don’t know when we will.”
The Simpsons airs Sundays at 8 p.m. Eastern/ 5 p.m. Pacific onf FOX. What are your thoughts on a second Simpsons movie? Do you want to see another one? Let us know in our comment section.
