As The Simpsons celebrates its 25th anniversary, producer James L. Brooks has been talking about the possibility of the beloved characters returning to the big screen for a sequel to 2007’s The Simpsons Movie, stating that they’ve been asked to do another feature, but they are yet to start any development… and seem reluctant to do so.
“We’ve been asked to but we haven’t. But we’re doing a lot of other stuff and that’s really… I don’t know what it’d be like a second time,” Brooks tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The first time it was, you know, we felt we were risking everything, risking everything about The Simpsons. What if the movie stunk and stuff like that. And I think it took us two years just to get loose. Just to breathe a little like we do on the show. And so it was a murderous two years until we got there. We had a script and then I was able to buy time for a while and then we had to agree to an exact deadline. It took us two years to try and act like we didn’t give a shit, which the show needs a little bit. You know, the show needs that quality. The movie needed that quality.”
So, it doesn’t sound like we’ll be seeing Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa and Maggie back on the big screen any time soon… are you disappointed by that news, or has The Simpsons had its day?
Originally published October 7, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
