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For Groening, The Simpsons Movie presents the chance for the filmmakers and audience to experience something the show, even with its myriad honors and enormous cultural impact, couldn’t offer: “We wanted to tell a longform ‘Simpsons’ story on the large canvas of a motion picture screen, and hear a theater full of people laughing at the same time,” says Groening.
As early as the show’s first season, the studio had approached Groening and coexecutive producer James L. Brooks about turning the television phenomenon into a motion picture. But then, as the show’s legions of fans have wondered, why did it take 18 years to bring “The Simpsons” to the big screen?
Al Jean, the series’ current showrunner and a writer/producer on the film, offers some insights: “We waited 18 years to make a film, because we didn’t want to do it just because we could; we wanted to make a movie because it was right. We wanted to create a story that demanded the scope offered by a film. The Simpsons Movie is not three episodes of the show strung together. It has heart. It centers on the forces that can tear apart a family and a town, and it looks at how a man might put his life back together in such a situation.”
“What separates the movie from the show is scale,” adds James L. Brooks, the Academy Award winning filmmaker behind “As Good As It Gets,” “Terms of Endearment” and “Broadcast News,” the Emmy winning writer-producer of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Taxi,” and a writer-producer on The Simpsons Movie.
“We have one hundred speaking parts in the movie, and we created scenes we couldn’t begin to draw for the series. Most of all, we wanted a ‘Simpsons’ movie to be a real moviegoing experience for the audience, while staying true to what we do with the show. We were wary of straying too far uptown.”
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