SIMPSONS Movie Talk
Executive producer Al Jean discusses the possibility of Homer and Bart coming to the big screen
Dateline: Monday, August 13, 2001
By: SCOTT COLLURA By: Contributing Editor
Al Jean, executive producer of the THE SIMPSONS, revealed to CINESCAPE this weekend his thoughts on the oft-discussed SIMPSONS theatrical film.
�There's more information than there had been [about a movie],� he said. �When the actors re-signed earlier this year the contracts called for them to do three movies. The price is fixed as to what they'll get paid, but we don't have a script. We obviously want it to be a really good script, so it involves us getting enough time to develop something that we really want to do. It's so much in the planning stages [at this point]."
So while it sounds as though a SIMPSONS film will happen eventually, fans of the show might have to content themselves with the regular episodes of the program for the time being.
�This is just my opinion,� continued Jean. �But it might be good to wait, like STAR TREK, until after the show is done. I think it's going to happen but I could not tell you when."