A live-actionFuturamaconcept trailer casts Ryan Reynolds and Chris Hemsworth in key roles. Futurama is a long-running animated show about a delivery crew 1,000 years in the future that comes fromThe Simsponscreator Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. The fan video comes after a similarconcept of a live-actionSimpsonsracked up more than 4 million views on YouTube, featuring Adam Sandler as Homer and Kristen Wiig as Marge, among others.
Multiverse of Movies, who created theSimpsonstrailer, has now imaginedFuturamaas a live-action series. The trailer, like others from the creator, has the lead character narrating and introducing the characters.Reynolds plays Fry, while Brie Larson plays Leila. Professor Farnsworth is played by Bill Murray and Amy is played by Lucy Liu. Rounding out the live-action cast, Jordan Peele is Hermes, Chris Hemsworth is Zapp Brannigan, Sigourney Weaver plays the villainous Mom, and J.K. Simmons is Scruffy. Bender and Zoidberg remain voiced by John DiMaggio and Billy West, respectively.
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Other Actors Would Also Fit The Role Well
Althougha live-actionFuturamais not in the works, the project would work well even without veteran movie stars in key roles. Larson, Hemsworth, Simmons, and Weaver are all attached to at least a few franchises while Peele is an A-list director and Liu is a popular star with several popular roles and two Emmy nominations. The project, if it did ever happen,would do well to favor more rising talent.
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Glen Powell would play an excellent Zapp, while Dave Franco would fit Fry quite well.To All the Boys I’ve Loved Beforestar Lana Candor would be a good choice for Amy, given the fact that she’s show romcom chops. It all falls in line with a live-action movie that would tell the story from the beginning, rather than with an already establishedFuturamaseason 12, which is currently streaming on Hulu.
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It’s Fun To Imagine
Although it’s fun to speculate about casting in a live-action movie,Futuramahas always been more of a cult show that has already survived cancellations rather than a cultural behemoth likeThe Simpsons. But as with any animated show, there will always be fan-castings to imagine how it would translate into live-action. It’s unlikely that it will get spun off into another format. But the trailer makes a case that it would be interesting.
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Futurama is an animated science fiction series that follows Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy from late-20th-century New York City. He is accidentally cryogenically frozen for a thousand years and becomes an employee at Planet Express, a delivery service in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
