Matt Groening’s Futurama may never have been as big as his other major creation, The Simpsons, but it’s still extremely popular. So much so that someone has now made a fan trailer for a live-action Futurama film.
If you’ve seen the cartoon, you may not think it would be possible to transport it into the live-action realm and keep it looking exactly like Futurama, including Leela’s single-eye, a prehistoric looking Professor Farnsworth and an endearingly low-tech take on the robot, Bender.
The makers, Cinema Relics, say on the film’s website: ‘In the year 2014 one man, Dan Lanigan, in addition to other men, and some women, set out on a quest to become the first person in his family to create a live-action Futurama fan film. He is now regarded by most of his immediate kin as the foremost authority on the subject. This is his story.
‘Of course, he was far too lazy to do it alone. Dan sought out the greatest mind/ego of his age, Martin Moonwalker Meunier to help him invent new technologies, techniques, and recipes to bring the visual realism sorely lacking in the cartoon. He signed on the attractive Kody Frederick to star, help write and produce, as well as add the sex-appeal sorely lacking in the cartoon. He engaged his niece, Katie Lanigan, to act, help produce, and add the nepotism sorely lacking in the cartoon. He activated the legendary Garzatron, a synthetic being capable of carrying on 16 conversations at once with himself, to help design and build stuff. Adam Cook was raised from the dead in accordance with ancient Swedish prophecy to help produce. Dan secured the musical genius, Eric Diaz, a talented singer-songwriter, to make costumes. He brought aboard Andy Klimczak so he wouldn’t be the only fat guy on set. He also acted and helped write.’
And that statement should give you a taste or just how nutty but oddly inspired this is. Take a look at the live-action Futurama trailer below. It’s not known when the finished fan film, Fan-O-Rama, will be completed/released, but it’s certainly something to look out for.
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