A trailer for a live-action movie based on The Simpsons, featuring Adam Sandler as Homer, has recently gone viral on social media and YouTube.
The YouTube channel Multiverse of AI released the trailer last week on August 8. Although the name of their channel should have hinted to viewers that the trailer might not be for a real project, speculation about a new film gained plenty of traction.
As previously mentioned, the trailer starred Sandler as the father figure, but it also included Kristen Wiig as Marge, Jacob Tremblay as Bart, and Young Sheldon’s Mckenna Grace as Lisa.
The fake Just Go with It star also narrated the clip, describing each character in the show: Will Ferrell as Ned Flanders, Steve Buscemi as Montgomery Burns, John C. Reilly as Barney Gumble, Bill Hader as Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, and more. Even though fans couldn’t help but feel that these actors could portray these iconic characters well, the eerie, warping AI visuals—and the fact that most of the AI-created characters looked considerably younger than they are now—made this exact creation far from reality.
The trailer ended directly after introducing the characters. There was no mention of a release date or any producers involved with the film.
Will there be another Simpsons movie?
While Matt Groening, the creator of the Fox sitcom, has said he has “no doubts” that a second Simpsons movie—in its animated form—will happen, a sequel isn’t actively in the works right now.
In 2014, producer James L. Brooks said the team was “asked to [develop it].”
“But we haven’t. We’re doing a lot of other stuff.”
Al Jean later revealed that Season 26’s “The Man Who Came to Be Dinner,” where the family is transported to Kang and Kodos’ planet, was considered as the plot for a feature film.
Three years later, David Silverman told Entertainment Weekly: “I’d love for there to be another one. We’re still a ways away from it. We talk about this and that. “We’re thinking it over, but nothing’s happening just yet… it’s still daunting because it really knocked the stuffing out of us to do the movie and the show at the same time.”
In 2019, Groening told Comic-Con attendees: “No doubt there will be another Simpsons movie one of these days. I think Disney wants something for its money.” However, he warned: “This is a true answer. The first Simpsons Movie almost killed us.
“We didn’t have a B-team waiting to do The Simpsons Movie, so the same people who wrote, animated, voiced, and did the music for The Simpsons TV show also did the movie. That was in 2007. We’re almost recovered, almost.”
Co-showrunner Matt Selman further explained the challenges of making a movie rather than a new season to ComicBook in May 2024.
He described the stresses of making a movie as “much, much higher than a TV show,” explaining how making a Simpsons movie takes “about the same amount of work as 30 episodes” of The Simpsons.
“But a new ‘Simpsons’ movie would be amazing. We just need the right idea and a billion hours to make it great” he added.