Al Jean is currently promoting The Good, The Bart and The Loki, a new Simpsons short now available on Disney Plus. In a recent interview, Jean spoke about the possibility of a sequel to The Simpsons Movie:
“We were really talking a lot about it before the pandemic. And now I think just as a heads-up, I want to see how movies, and specifically animated movies, come back, because I don’t want to do this just as a streaming experiment. We really want it to be a theatrical movie because that was the goal of the first one, it was something you couldn’t get anywhere else. I’m going to the movies, I’m vaccinated. I’m really rooting for the movie industry, but I want to see what, personally, the landscape is. And they also have so many great movies, I think they have five Avatar movies, five Star Wars movies waiting… so they have a lot to release and we’ll see Black Widow this weekend. I’ll support the cinema, even though I have Disney Plus.”
Al Jean does not want to make another cinematic adventure with The Simpsons unless it can be released in theaters. And that makes sense, since The Simpsons Movie was special because it was a theatrical experience.
The Simpsons Movie was released in 2007. It was a tremendous success, grossing $536 million at the box office. Series creator Matt Groening said in 2019 at San Diego Comic-Con that a sequel would definitely happen at some point. It seems that moment was approaching, but 2020 had other plans. Still, we remain hopeful that The Simpsons 2 will happen.
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